[1] It previously served grades K-11[2] and was managed by the Pelican Educational Foundation on behalf of the RSD.
[3] It was located on the site of the former Marion Abramson High School in New Orleans East.
In July 2011 Folwell Dunbar and his boss, Jacob Landry, were fired by the Louisiana State Superintendent of Schools.
[10] As a result of the allegations of misconduct,[11] by August 2011, the state revoked Pelican's contract shortly before the beginning of the school year.
Andrew Vanacore of The Times Picayune said that compared to the former Abramson High School, The new Abramson, part of a revolutionary post-storm movement toward independent charter schools, was able to produce vastly improved results.