The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men

Located at 3774 Gentilly Blvd., in New Orleans, Louisiana, The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men is a minimally staffed high school that hosts 77 students (grades 8 through 12), operated by Orleans Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 89% below the state mean of about 711.

Orleans Parish comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,322 students; The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men logs that nearly all students (95%) are Black; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orleans Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.2%, the actual is 11.5%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orleans Parish) reports that median household income runs about $56,631, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men is one of 82 public schools in Orleans Parish (combined enrollment of about 48,238 students).

Nearest neighbor: Audubon Charter Gentilly, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men operates from a high-density location. The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.