Phillis Wheatley Community School

Phillis Wheatley Community School is a large elementary school in Phillis Wheatley Community School, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It teaches 777 students in pre-K through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll about 453 students on average.

Phillis Wheatley Community School is its own local education agency in federal data.

Black students are 70% of those enrolled at Phillis Wheatley Community School. The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Orleans Parish's population at about 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.

The school had 61.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.6:1. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 14.0:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 84%. The 75% average for public schools in Orleans Parish is 9 points lower.

In Orleans Parish, where the school is located, the median household earns about $56,631 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Public schools in Orleans Parish number 82, with about 48,238 students.

About 0.4 miles separate Phillis Wheatley Community School from the closest public school, Bricolage Academy. The five-mile area around Phillis Wheatley Community School holds at least 8 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large. Federal records list Phillis Wheatley Community School as a charter school.

Enrollment was 777 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 831. The ratio was 23.1:1 in 2020-21 and 12.6:1 in 2024-25.

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