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New Orleans, Louisiana - 1 schools
At $50,878 per pupil, Opportunities Academy ranks #1 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Opportunities Academy operates 1 public schools serving 84 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Orleans Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $50,878 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 19 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Louisiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 14.3% local, 69.8% state, and 16.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 50.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.2% African American, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Opportunities Academy, enrolling 93 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Opportunities Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Opportunities Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Opportunities Academy a distant remainder — means Opportunities Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Opportunities Academy has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 85.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Opportunities Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 50.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Opportunities Academy has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 84 students.
How much does Opportunities Academy spend per student?
Opportunities Academy spends $50,878 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Opportunities Academy?
Opportunities Academy students are 88.2% African American, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% White, 1.1% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.