KIPP East

Located at 6519 Virgilian St, in New Orleans, Louisiana, KIPP East is a sizable primary school that works with 921 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by KIPP East Community Primary. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so KIPP East sits 103% above that benchmark.

KIPP East is a school of KIPP East Community Primary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP East records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Orleans Parish as a whole is about 55% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, KIPP East lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting KIPP East tighter than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Orleans Parish's rate of about 75%.

Zooming out to the county, Orleans Parish reports 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%. In all, Orleans Parish runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), of which KIPP East is one.

Livingston Collegiate Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

KIPP East operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, KIPP East runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIPP East has edged up 179%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 921 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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