KIPP Leadership

As an expansive elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana, KIPP Leadership hosts 890 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by KIPP Leadership. Enrollment runs roughly 96% above the state mean of about 453.

KIPP Leadership sits inside KIPP Leadership, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, KIPP Leadership reports that nearly all students (87%) are Black; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Orleans Parish's rate of about 75%.

Across the wider county, census data for Orleans Parish shows median household earnings sit near $56,631, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), KIPP Leadership is one campus in the mix.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Leadership.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. KIPP Leadership operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 937 students in 2018 compared to 890 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 95% to 87%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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