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 \n2 0 2 5  \nTHE COWEN INSTITUTE  \nOur mission: The Cowen Institute equips leaders and practitioners with skills and resources to increase educational and postsecondary success among New Orleans students.  \nThe Cowen Institute was established in 2007 to monitor , chronicle , and analyze the significant changes occurring in New Orleans ’ public education system after Hurricane Katrina . The institute is named after Scott Cowen , President Emeritus of Tulane University , who served as a leader in New Orleans ’ recovery and in transforming its education system . Since then , our work has expanded beyond research and policy. Today , the Cowen Institute fulfills its mission through two strategic pillars: contextualiz ing data and providing thought leadership , and building practitioners ’ capacity.  \nTHE RE PORT  \nThe State of Public Education in New Orleans (SPENO) report has evolved since its initial publication by the Cowen Institute in 2007. Originally , SPENO documented the sweeping changes to New Orleans ’ public education system following Hurricane Katrina , particularly the shift to a charter school dominated landscape . It also emphasized comparisons between governance structures and academic performance before and after these reforms . Over time , we have expanded the report ’ s scope by incorporating more publicly available data , mainly from the Louisiana Department of Education ( LDOE) and New Orleans Public Schools ( NOLA-PS) , and shifting our focus to include insights into students ’ postsecondary outcomes . The report remains a snapshot of public education during the current academic year , utilizing aggregated public data to inform a broad audience—including educators , families , students , policymakers , and the general public .  \nReport authors:  \n Writing and Editing: Vincent Rossmeier , Cowen Institute Policy Director  \n Data: Kad y Rost , Cowen Institute Senior Data Analyst  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \n4 INTRODUCTION  \n6 20-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE  \n10 CURRENT EVENTS  \n14 GOVERNANCE  \n18 ENROLLMENT  \n26 ACCOUNTABILITY  \n30 SCHOOL PERFORMANCE  \n38 POSTSECONDARY  \n42 LOOKING AHEAD  \n43 ENDNOTES & SOURCES  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe Cowen Institute last published our flagship report , The State of Public Education in New Orleans (SPENO) , in February 2023. More than two years later , public schools , along with educators , parents , and students , continue to recover from the unprecedented environment of school closures andreopenings , masking , and virtual learning that marked the COVID-19 pandemic .  \nThis year ’ s report comes nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina . The devastation that storm wrought on New Orleans led in part to the dramatic changes that reshaped public education in the city. New Orleans now has the most decentralized public education system in the country—all but one of the public schools in the city are public charter schools , rather than schools run directly by the school district , as i s the case in most of the U. S. The 2015 SPENO attempted to comprehensively look back at the first ten years of public education in the city post-Katrina . This 2025 report draws on that report , but does not repeat it. Instead , the focus is on the past ten years generally , and the past two years since the last SPENO report specifically. It does , however , include a section on the progress of New Orleans public education over the past 20 years .  \nThis report is not meant to serve as an exhaustive analysis of every facet of public education in New Orleans . This is a deliberate choice . Addressing complex topics such as enrollment , school performance , and transportation with the necessary depth , nuance , and context would require extensive research and additional data collection and is beyond the scope of this publication . Instead , we see value in compiling and summarizing publicly available data on New Orleans ’ education landscape into a single , cohesive report. 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