Schools · New Orleans
New Orleans, LA schools
New Orleans’s public schools score well below Louisiana’s averages: 27% of students are proficient in reading against 40.1% statewide, and 71% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.1%. Kids attend The Leah Chase School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B−
New Orleans’s School Grade: B-
The public schools New Orleans’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 53% of Louisiana’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
B-Test scoresC-Graduation
Louisiana school districts we grade (188)Better than 47%
Lower resultsHigher results
Louisiana towns with similar household incomes (175)Better than 6%
High confidence. Built on 1,038 tested students and a graduating class of 381; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Louisiana’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Louisiana only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Louisiana with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where New Orleans kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades K–5, Orleans Parish)27%
State average 40.1%
Math (grades K–5, Orleans Parish)11%
State average 28.7%
Graduation · class of 2020
71% graduate on time
Graduation rate
71%
LA: 84.1%
Graduating class
381
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #158 of 161 LA towns →
Districts
The district serving New Orleans
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 113 schools in New Orleans
Showing 1–30 of 113 schools
International School of LouisianaElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,074 students
BCharterBricolage AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 965 students
BCharterKIPP MorialElementary · Grades PK–8 · 951 students
C-CharterAudubon Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 937 students
B+CharterKIPP EastElementary · Grades PK–8 · 921 students
C-CharterHarriet Tubman Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 901 students
DCharterKIPP LeadershipElementary · Grades PK–8 · 890 students
DCharterDorothy Height Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 878 students
DCharterMildred Osborne Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 850 students
CharterKIPP Central CityElementary · Grades PK–8 · 817 students
C-CharterLangston Hughes Charter AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 791 students
C-CharterHomer Plessy Community SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 781 students
CharterArthur Ashe Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 778 students
C-CharterPhillis Wheatley Community SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 777 students
DCharterMartin Behrman Charter Acad of Creative Arts & SciElementary · Grades PK–8 · 756 students
C-CharterBenjamin Franklin Elem. Math and ScienceElementary · Grades PK–8 · 739 students
C-CharterReNEW Dolores T. Aaron ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 738 students
C-CharterAlice M Harte Elementary Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 725 students
C+CharterKIPP BelieveElementary · Grades PK–8 · 710 students
DCharterLake Forest Elementary Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 691 students
A+CharterEdward Hynes Charter School - LakeviewElementary · Grades K–8 · 690 students
ACharterReNEW Schaumburg ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 683 students
DCharterMary Bethune Elementary Literature/TechnologyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 659 students
CCharterReNEW Laurel ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 641 students
C-CharterWilson Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 601 students
DCharterDwight D. Eisenhower Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 596 students
C-CharterEdward Hynes Charter School - UNOElementary · Grades K–5 · 577 students
CharterPierre A. Capdau S.T.E.A.M SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 565 students
DCharterEsperanza Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 538 students
DCharterYoung Audiences at Crocker ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 510 students
CharterSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.