The north Louisiana school funding blog
Reporting and how-tos on LA GATOR, STO scholarships and private school costs for families in Shreveport, Bossier City, Barksdale and the parishes around them.
Where the open seats are in Shreveport-Bossier, according to the state's own numbers
Louisiana publishes enrollment for every approved nonpublic school. Read it the right way and it tells you which north Louisiana schools are probably full, which have room, and where a new approval is about to add capacity.
Read →October 12, 2026Your Shreveport tutor probably isn't registered with Odyssey yet
LA GATOR can pay a tutor, a therapist or an evaluator directly, but only if that provider has registered in the Odyssey marketplace. In north Louisiana most of them have not, and there is no reimbursement for paying out of pocket.
Read →October 12, 2026Pre-K is the year LA GATOR doesn't pay for. Here's how Shreveport families bridge it
The account starts at age 5, but the pre-K programs at Shreveport's private schools are where kindergarten seats are decided. What to ask, what the state's own enrollment figures show, and how to avoid paying twice.
Read →October 12, 2026Crossing the river for school: how Caddo and Bossier families use one metro's worth of options
Bossier Parish has two approved nonpublic schools and Caddo has twenty-one. The account does not care which side of the Red River you live on, and in this metro that single fact reshapes the search.
Read →See what your family's account would cover here
Five questions, no documents. An advisor calls back with the amount you are likely to get, which Shreveport-Bossier schools take it, and what covers the rest.