Audubon Charter Gentilly

Audubon Charter Gentilly is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the schools within Audubon Charter Gentilly, educateing 448 students in grades K through 8.

Audubon Charter Gentilly sits inside Audubon Charter Gentilly, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Audubon Charter Gentilly lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 9% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Orleans Parish as a whole is about 55% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Audubon Charter Gentilly has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orleans Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), Audubon Charter Gentilly is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Audubon Charter Gentilly.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Audubon Charter Gentilly is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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