Mildred Osborne Charter School

Mildred Osborne Charter School, a large K-5 school in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the schools within Mildred Osborne Charter School, works with 850 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Mildred Osborne Charter School sits 88% bigger than that benchmark.

Operationally, Mildred Osborne Charter School answers to Mildred Osborne Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Mildred Osborne Charter School records that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mildred Osborne Charter School has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orleans Parish put the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), Mildred Osborne Charter School is one campus in the mix.

KIPP East is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mildred Osborne Charter School.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Mildred Osborne Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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