Esperanza Charter School

Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, Esperanza Charter School is a mid-tier elementary campus, run under Esperanza Charter School. It teaches 538 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Esperanza Charter School is the operating authority for Esperanza Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Esperanza Charter School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 37% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at school resources, Esperanza Charter School records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Orleans Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), Esperanza Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Success @ Thurgood Marshall, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Esperanza Charter School.

Esperanza Charter School operates from a city-core location. Esperanza Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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