Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School

Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School is a large elementary school located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school counted 725 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 8. The school is 60% above the average for elementary schools in Louisiana.

Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

Black students account for 90% of the school's enrollment. The school is also 6% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.

Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.8:1. The school's 14.8:1 compares with an average of 14.0:1 for elementary schools in Louisiana. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 72%.

For Orleans Parish, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $56,631 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Public schools in Orleans Parish number 82, with about 48,238 students.

A public school about 0.8 miles away, Elan Academy Charter School, is the closest to Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School is one of the charter schools in Louisiana.

Enrollment figures show a drop of 39 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.1:1 in 2020-21, and 14.8:1 in 2024-25.

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