According to ELL director Karina Castillo the East Bank had more of the new students than the West Bank. Most of the additional students for 2014-2015 were Hispanic, and of them, most were Honduran. There were a total of 5,634 English Language Learners (ELL) students as part of the overall student enrollment for 2014–2015, and that had increased by about 1,200 (28%). In the 2014–2015 school year the district had 48,126 students, 1,467 students (3%) higher than the enrollment of the previous school year. The projected number of students to be moved was about 2,000. Of the nine the Jefferson Parish School Board members, eight voted in favor of the closures and one voted against. That year there was a proposal to close seven schools. By 2012 it had 81 schools but about 46,000.
In 1981 it had about 61,000 students and 75 schools. As of 2014 it had 47,000 students, making it the largest public school system in the state. The district operates all district public schools in Jefferson Parish. Jefferson Parish Public Schools is a school district based in Harvey in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The location of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana