New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is a very small high school that serves part of New Orleans, Louisiana. Enrollment totals 224 students across grades 9 through 13. That puts enrollment 68% below the 711-student average for high schools in Louisiana.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

No group is above 50% at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; the largest is Black, at 41%. It is also 37% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Orleans Parish's residents are about 55% Black, 14 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts scores 67%.

Its staff includes 65.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 3.4 students per teacher. Across high schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 18.0:1. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 43%. Compared with the 75% average for public schools in Orleans Parish, the school's rate is lower.

In Orleans Parish, home to about 371,853 people, the median household earns about $56,631 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Orleans Parish number 82, with about 48,238 students.

KIPP Leadership is about 0.4 miles from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Federal data place New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 224, from 241 in 2020-21.

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.