New Harmony High Institute

Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Harmony High Institute is an intimate 9-12 campus, part of New Harmony High Institute. It teaches 328 students across grades 9 through 13. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 711.

Operationally, New Harmony High Institute answers to New Harmony High Institute, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, New Harmony High Institute lists that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 14% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, New Harmony High Institute has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orleans Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orleans Parish runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), of which New Harmony High Institute is one.

International High School of New Orleans is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. New Harmony High Institute operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.