Lusher Charter School, High School

The deadline to submit an application is 11:59 p.m., Nov. 30, 2020.

Lusher Charter School, a National Blue Ribbon School in partnership with Tulane University, offers a unique program that inspires imagination and intellectual curiosity. Lusher’s renowned academic program engages students and challenges them to think critically, analytically and creatively.

Lusher students are engaged, inquisitive, creative and caring.

Lusher has mastered the challenge of balancing a high academic program with student well-being. At the center of this balance is the school’s focus on student interests and talents. Lusher’s unique curriculum, founded on a concept of arts integration, weaves the arts into all of our classes. The school has a rigorous academic program to challenge high achieving students.

The school’s philosophy combines the power of critical thinking skills and creativity to prepare students for successful academic futures and help them develop and grow into adulthood. Students are offered a superior arts program that includes all of the art forms. Lusher also offers an outstanding athletic program in grades 5-12.

With an excellent academic program that earns millions of dollars in scholarship funds for its graduates each year, Lusher has something special for every child, whether that be engineering, creative writing, violin, chess, football or dance.

Kindness, hard work, responsibility and respect

A key tenet of Lusher culture is Project Pride, which emphasizes the core values of kindness, hard work, responsibility and respect. Lusher is celebrated by the Anti-Defamation League and is one of just three Louisiana Ashoka Changemaker Schools. Changemaker Schools create innovators of the future by building a culture of empathy. Lusher students learn that the number one rule is to be kind, and this core value is deeply embedded throughout the K-12 program.

Lusher Charter School was designated a 2018-2023 Exemplary School by Arts Schools Network. 

Explore our website to learn more about Lusher’s highly recognized K-12 program.