Schools & Education
East Baton Rouge Parish has 150 schools, including public, parochial and private, serving 71,560 students from grades kindergarten through high school. Baton Rouge has four business colleges, two trade schools, two state schools for sight and hearing-impaired students, two nursing schools and several corporate and university research and applied science facilities including: Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, Louisiana Technical College-Baton Rouge-Ascension-Evangeline, Nicholls State University, Our Lady of the Lake College, and Southern University and A&M College.