Opportunities Academy

Families in New Orleans, Louisiana, are served by Opportunities Academy, a very small high school. It offers grade 12 and has 93 students enrolled. That is 87% below the average of about 711 students for high schools in Louisiana.

Opportunities Academy is its own local education agency in federal data.

At Opportunities Academy, 88% of students are Black. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Orleans Parish is roughly 55% Black. The diversity index for Opportunities Academy is 22%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Opportunities Academy reported 11 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 8.4:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Louisiana is 18.0:1. There are 92 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 99% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Orleans Parish averages 75%, lower than here.

Orleans Parish is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $56,631, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orleans Parish's 82 public schools enroll about 48,238 students and include Opportunities Academy.

Booker T. Washington High School is the nearest public school to Opportunities Academy, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Opportunities Academy is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large. Opportunities Academy is a public charter school.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 66 to 93. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served.

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