ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary

ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, a well-populated elementary-level community in New Orleans, Louisiana, overseen by ReNew Dolores T Aaron Elementary, hosts 738 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary sits 63% bigger than that benchmark.

Operationally, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary answers to ReNew Dolores T Aaron Elementary, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orleans Parish) logs that 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. Across Orleans Parish's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students), ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Orleans Accelerated High School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 853 students in 2018 compared to 738 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 96% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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