New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy

New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy is a high school of average-sized scale in New Orleans, Louisiana, run under New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy, works with 945 students in grades 8 through 12. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy is the operating authority for New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Black, 20% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 16.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orleans Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $56,631 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Orleans Parish runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), of which New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Harriet Tubman Charter School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy 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 edged up 24%: 763 students in 2018 compared to 945 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 20% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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