ReNEW Schools

Its headquarters are in the Batiste Cultural Arts Academy school facility,[1][2] in the former Live Oak Elementary School in the Irish Channel neighborhood.

[3] ReNEW is a charter management organization that specializes in acquiring low performing schools.

[4] Around 2009 Live Oak Elementary School was performing so poorly that Paul Vallas, the head of the Recovery School District (RSD), gave the school to the ReNEW.

[4] In 2019, the ReNEW staff announced to their staff via e-mail that they would be closing both McDonough City Park Academy and ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy.

[5] It is anticipated that Firstline Schools, a competing charter group, will be granted a charter for a school at the Cultural Arts Academy location.