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| Orleans Parish School Board | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
2401 Westbend Parkway
United StatesNew Orleans, LA 70114 | |
| Coordinates | 29°55′44″N 90°01′15″W / 29.928789°N 90.020757°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Our job is building for the future |
| Grades | PK - 12 |
| Established | 1841 |
| President | Olin Parker |
| Vice-president | Dr. Jancarlos (J.C.) Wagner-Romero |
| Superintendent | Dr. Avis Williams |
| Asst. superintendent(s) | Mary K. Garton |
| Schools | 20[1] |
| NCES District ID | 2201170[2] |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | approximately 15,500 (excludes RSD- & BESE-chartered public schools) |
| Other information | |
| Website | nolapublicschools |
The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), branded as NOLA Public Schools, governs the public school system that serves New Orleans, Louisiana. It includes the entirety of Orleans Parish, coterminous with New Orleans.[3]
The OPSB directly administers 6 schools and has granted charters to another 18. Though the Orleans Parish School Board has retained ownership of all the assets of the New Orleans Public Schools system, including all school buildings, approximately 93% of students attending publicly-funded schools post-Katrina in Orleans Parish attended charter schools.[4][5]
Schools previously operating under the Recovery School District umbrella within Orleans Parish after Katrina were, as of the fall of 2014, publicly funded and privately operated charter schools.[1][4][6] The RSD returned all its schools to the OPSB in 2018.
The headquarters of the OPSB is in the West Bank neighborhood of Algiers.[7]
- ^ a b "Our Schools". Orleans Parish School Board. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- ^ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Orleans Parish". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Orleans Parish, LA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 25, 2022. - Text list
- ^ a b New Orleans District Moves To An All-Charter System. https://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/05/30/317374739/new-orleans-district-moves-to-an-all-charter-system
- ^ RSD looks at making charters pay rent, The Times-Picayune, December 18, 2009.
- ^ "Recovery School District-All Schools 2013-2014" (PDF). Recovery School District. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- ^ "Central Office Staff Archived 2009-06-09 at the Wayback Machine." New Orleans Public Schools. Retrieved on December 15, 2009.