Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans

[8] Originally the school operated out of the Audubon Zoo and the First Presbyterian Church, with three classrooms at each location.

[11] The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) authorized the charter of the school.

The chairperson of the board hired a former McGehee School employee, Gisele Schexnider, as the interim CEO.

[11] Parents critical believed that the decision happened too quickly and that it was not right that the hiring was done without a previous superintendent search.

[12] In response, John White, the Louisiana state superintendent of education, appointed a person to assist the school to get a permanent leader, Jeremy Hunnewell, who was of both EMH Strategy and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, in December 2012;[17] this was a decision Dreilinger described as unexpected.

That year, the OPSB sold the three-story former Alfred C. Priestly Junior High School campus to the Lycee.

That year the student population was expanding and the school was seeking additional temporary space.

[20] In 2016 the lycee's board approved plans to ask to open a campus at the former James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in Carrollton.

[19] Space in Johnson opened up since Sophie B. Wright Charter School vacated the building that year as renovation in its permanent facility had been completed.

In 2019 the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) allowed the school to give waivers for the French proficiency test to students who come from schools accredited by the French Ministry of Education and/or have passed the Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française.

The Priestly building/complex was worth about $425,000 in 2015; Martha Jewson of The Times-Picayune wrote that the school would need to spend at least $9 million to make the building student-worthy.