Culture, Community & Connection in 2024
Our 2024 was filled with lots of events and celebrations across the FirstLine network.
We believe New Orleans can be the first city in America where every child goes to a great school.
Our schools will prepare students for college, fulfilling careers, and a healthy life by nurturing students in mind, body, and spirit.
FirstLine Schools is a network of four public charter schools educating pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade students.
Our 2024 was filled with lots of events and celebrations across the FirstLine network.
Edible Schoolyard & Arthur Ashe celebrated another amazing Sweet Potato Festival this October! With picture perfect weather, our FirstLine & ESYNOLA families and staff came together for a parade, complete with lively walkers and the Ashe band’s upbeat tunes.
In response to the anticipated severe winter weather, all FirstLine schools will be closed on Tuesday, January 21. This decision aligns with NOLA PS and the City of New Orleans recommendations. For tips on preparing for winter weather, please visit ready.nola.gov/home/.
Decisions about school operations for Wednesday, January 22nd, will be made and communicated by Tuesday afternoon.
FirstLine Schools will communicate any updates via email, ParentSquare, website, social media, and the local news media.
Stay safe and keep warm!
Kirsten Feil is the Director of Teaching & Learning at FirstLine. She began her career as a Teach For America Corps Member in New Orleans in 1998 at an alternative middle school in Orleans Parish. In 2000, she joined the staff of New Orleans Charter Middle School as an 8th grade social studies teacher and continued working there as a teacher, team lead, and social studies department chair until Katrina. After earning her Master of School Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she returned to the city and the next iteration of Charter Middle: FirstLine Schools.