 A relatively steady decrease in white enrollment in private schools and a slight increase in African American enrollment at public schools continued so that by the 2004–2005 school year (the year before Hurricane Katrina), 94 percent of New Orleans public school students were from lower-income, African American families who could not afford to send their children to private schools.Among these schools, two-thirds of them were rated "Academically Unacceptable" according to Louisiana's accountability standards.Some progress to improve the quality of education in New Orleans has been made since the crisis and Hurricane Katrina