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Black student results in Orleans Parish

Across 47 schools in Orleans Parish, 20.6% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 1.9 points below the Louisiana average for Black students.

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22.8%
All students
20.6%
Black
24.2%
Hispanic
54%
White
60.8%
Asian

Average across the 47 schools in Orleans Parish with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 44 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Lake Forest Elementary Charter School reports 79% of Black students meeting the standard. Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School For Sci Tech, in the same district, reports 7%. That is a 72-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Orleans Parish

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting mastery or above. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Lake Forest Elementary Charter School Charter 81% 79% 91% 89%
The Willow School Charter 88% 77% 90% 89% 92%
Edward Hynes Charter School - Lakeview Charter 66% 43% 74% 77% 87%
Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School Charter 42% 40% 49%
Audubon Charter School Charter 57% 35% 55% 70% 56%
Edward Hynes Charter School - Uno Charter 35% 27% 29% 63% 55%
Edward Hynes Charter School - Parkview Charter 25% 26% 5% 36%
Audubon Charter Gentilly Charter 26% 24% 20% 58%
Mary Bethune Elementary Literature/technology Charter 23% 23% 26%
Benjamin Franklin Elem. Math And Science Charter 23% 23% 43% 41%
Success @ Thurgood Marshall Charter 23% 23% 22% 35%
Dwight D. Eisenhower Charter School Charter 24% 23% 24% 56% 94%
Kipp Morial Charter 20% 22% 16%
Wilson Charter School Charter 24% 22% 27%
Elan Academy Charter School Charter 21% 21% 10%
Renew Dolores T. Aaron Elementary Charter 21% 21% 23% 41%
Kipp Leadership Charter 21% 21% 16% 65%
Arthur Ashe Charter School Charter 21% 21% 20% 31%
Renew Laurel Elementary Charter 22% 20% 31% 67%
Martin Behrman Charter Acad Of Creative Arts & Sci Charter 19% 20% 13%
Bricolage Academy Charter 30% 20% 40% 62%
Kipp Believe Charter 19% 19% 28%
Kipp East Charter 19% 19% 12%
Samuel J. Green Charter School Charter 20% 19% 21%
Morris Jeff Community School Charter 26% 18% 16% 52% 75%
Harriet Tubman Charter School Charter 16% 17% 17% 46% 67%
Dorothy Height Charter School Charter 18% 17% 19% 36%
Kipp Central City Charter 17% 17% 21% 62%
Langston Hughes Charter Academy Charter 17% 17% 22% 54%
Foundation Preparatory Academy Charter 14% 17% 9%
Phillis Wheatley Community School Charter 15% 16% 14%
The Leah Chase School 14% 15% 11%
Homer Plessy Community School Charter 31% 15% 23% 59% 35%
Mildred Osborne Charter School Charter 15% 14% 9%
Einstein Charter Middle Sch At Sarah Towles Reed Charter 15% 14% 10% 37%
Fannie C. Williams Charter School Charter 13% 13% 15%
Einstein Charter At Sherwood Forest Charter 11% 13% 7% 20%
Pierre A. Capdau S.t.e.a.m School Charter 14% 13% 12%
Renew Schaumburg Elementary Charter 13% 12% 13%
Esperanza Charter School Charter 14% 12% 14% 45%
Young Audiences At Crocker Elementary Charter 11% 11% 7% 44%
Renew Robert Russa Moton Lakefront Elementary Charter 9% 10%
Einstein Charter School At Village De L'est Charter 10% 10% 8% 23%
Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School For Sci Tech Charter 8% 7% 9%
New Orleans Accelerated High School CharterAlt 1% 1%
The Net Charter High School CharterAlt 0% 0%
The Net 2 Charter High School CharterAlt 0% 0%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. Louisiana suppresses results under FERPA and marks groups under ten students as NR. Where the Advanced share is masked as under 5%, proficiency is derived from the reported lower achievement levels. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 1,016 of the state's schools have reportable data. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Louisiana figures should not be compared against another state's.

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