Schools
Fifty three public schools opened in New Orleans for the 2006-2007 school year. This number included schools run by the OPSB or the RSD, or schools chartered by the OPSB or the RSD. By November 2006, the district was approaching half of its pre-Katrina enrollment, with 36% of the students enrolled in independent charter schools, 18% in the Algiers Charter School Association charter network, 35% in the state-run RSD, and 11% in the few remaining district-run schools. The majority of students in the NOPS system attended independently administered public charter schools, a condition that has persisted to the present and is cited with approval by national advocates of charter schools.
For the 2009-2010 school year, the Orleans Parish School Board directly administers 4 schools and oversees the 12 it has chartered. The RSD operates 33 schools and has chartered 37. Additionally, two schools were chartered directly by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).
As of fall 2009, the following NOPS schools are open:
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