High · Regular · Grades 9 to 13

Eleanor McMain Secondary School, New Orleans, LA

Charter schoolCEP schoolEleanor McMain Secondary School is a public high school in New Orleans, part of Eleanor McMain Secondary School. It enrolled 690 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 690
Teachers (FTE): 48.0
Students per teacher: 14.4
Grades: 9 to 13

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.4. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4

District14.4

Louisiana13.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 5712 South Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70125
Phone: (504)324-7500
District: Eleanor McMain Secondary School
County: Orleans Parish
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 220029100945

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 524
Reduced-price lunch: 51
Free or reduced-price lunch: 57583.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 509Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.