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Sophie B. Wright Institute of Academic Excellence, New Orleans, LA

Charter schoolCEP schoolSophie B. Wright Institute of Academic Excellence is a public high school in New Orleans, part of Sophie B Wright Institute of Academic Excellence. It enrolled 534 students in 2024-25, with 18.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
534
Teachers (FTE)
29.0
Students per teacher
18.4
Grades
6 to 13

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 18.4. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.4
District18.4
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
1426 Napoleon Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70115
County
Orleans Parish
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
220018600981
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
441
Reduced-price lunch
20
Free or reduced-price lunch
46186.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification
409Students 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.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in New Orleans

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.