Lafayette Academy Charter School

Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lafayette Academy Charter School is a mid-tier K-5 school, overseen by Lafayette Academy Charter School. It hosts 519 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Lafayette Academy Charter School is a school of Lafayette Academy Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Lafayette Academy Charter School records that nearly all students (87%) are Black. Other groups include 12% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Lafayette Academy Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orleans Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), Lafayette Academy Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Metairie Academy for Advanced Studies 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.

Lafayette Academy Charter School operates from a downtown location. Lafayette Academy Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.