Betsy DeVos Visits 2 New Orleans Charters Preferred by NOLA’s White Population
When it comes to almost-all-charter New Orleans, if a school has a notable white population, it also tends to have a higher school grade.
I wrote about this reality in this July 22, 2018, post, in which I include the following chart I created to show where New Orleans’ white students overwhelmingly choose to attend:
School
|
Total students
|
Black
|
White
|
% at-risk
|
2017 grade
|
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
|
228
|
60
|
123
|
17.98%
|
A
|
Bricolage Academy
|
443
|
191
|
207
|
41.33%
|
B
|
New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy
|
763
|
341
|
224
|
64.35%
|
A
|
Morris Jeff Community School
|
826
|
449
|
235
|
58.35%
|
C
|
Audubon Charter School
|
797
|
362
|
312
|
41.41%
|
A
|
International School of Louisiana
|
1,389
|
571
|
345
|
57.31%
|
A
|
Edward Hynes Charter School
|
691
|
225
|
363
|
48.64%
|
A
|
Benjamin Franklin High School
|
970
|
293
|
368
|
24.54%
|
A
|
Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle-Orleans
|
765
|
129
|
449
|
35.69%
|
B
|
Lusher Charter School
|
1,761
|
460
|
997
|
16.98%
|
A
|
The one exception is Warren Easton High School, which in 2017 had a school grade of A and enrolled 958 black students, 24 Hispanic students, and 2 white students. Furthermore, only one D-graded school could be added to this list: Homer Plessy Community School, which enrolled 73 white students out of 251 (29 percent).
The remaining 33 out of 85 D-F-graded schools all have majority black populations Continue reading: Betsy DeVos Visits 2 New Orleans Charters Preferred by NOLA’s White Population | deutsch29
