New Orleans Public Schools
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New Orleans Public Schools is a public school district that serves all of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The school district is governed by the Orleans Parish School Board.
NOPS was the New Orleans area's largest school district before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, damaging or destroying more than 100 of the district's 128 school buildings. NOPS served approximately 65,000 students pre-Katrina.
As a result of legislation passed by the state in November 2005, 102 of the city's worst-performing public schools were transferred to the Recovery School District (RSD), which is operated by the Louisiana Department of Education and headed by Louisiana Department of Education staff member, Robin Jarvis. The Recovery School District was created in 2003 to allow the state to take over failing schools, those that fell into a certain "worst-performing" metric. Five public schools in New Orleans were transferred to the RSD prior to Katrina.
Twenty five public schools, serving approximately 12,000 students, reopened in post-Katrina New Orleans during the 2005-2006 school year.
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[edit] Schools
Fifty three public schools opened in New Orleans for the 2006-2007 school year. This number includes a combination of schools run by NOPS or the RSD, or chartered by NOPS or the RSD. As of November 2006, the district is approaching half of it’s pre-Katrina enrollment. 36% of the students are enrolled in independent charter schools, 18% in the ACSA charter network, 35% in the state-run RSD, and 11% in the few remaining district-run schools.
NOPS directly runs five schools and has chartered 12. The RSD operates 23 schools and has chartered 18. Additionally, two schools were chartered by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).
[edit] NOPS charter schools
As of fall 2006, the following NOPS charter schools are open:
- Alice Harte Elementary
- Audubon Charter School
- Benjamin Franklin High School
- Edna Karr High School
- Edward Hynes Charter School
- Einstein Charter School
- Lake Forest Elementary Charter
- Lusher Charter School (K-12)
- Moton Elementary
- New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School
- Priestley Charter School
- Warren Easton Fundamental High School
[edit] RSD-operated schools
- Albert Wicker Elementary
- A.P. Tureaud Elementary (Marie Couvent)
- Benjamin Banneker Elementary School
- Colton Academy
- Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School
- Edward Livingston High School
- Frederick A. Douglass High School
- James Johnson Elementary
- John Dibert Elementary
- John McDonogh High School
- Josesph Clark High School
- Joseph Craig Elementary School
- Laurel Elementary
- Live Oak Elementary
- McDonogh #42 Elementary
- Murray Henderson Elementary
- Paul Habans Elementary
- Rabouin High School
- Reed Elementary
- Reep Jr. High
- Reed High School
- Rosenwald Elementary
- Schwartz Alternative School
- Walter L. Cohen High School
[edit] RSD charter schools
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School for Science and Technology Elementary
- Edward P. Harney Elementary
- Eisenhower Elementary
- Fischer Elementary
- James M. Singleton Charter School (Dryades YMCA)
- KIPP Believe College Prep a school [1]
- Lafayette Academy
- Martin Berhman Elementary School
- McDonogh 15: A KIPP Transformation School [2]
- McDonogh 28 Elementary
- McDonogh 32 Elementary
- Medard Nelson UNO Charter School
- New Orleans Free Elementary
- O. Perry Walker High School
- Pierre A. Capdau Charter School
- Priestly Charter School
- S.J. Green Charter School
- Sophie B. Wright Charter School
[edit] BESE charter schools
- International School
- Milestone/Sabis Charter School
[edit] Algiers Charter Schools Association
The Algiers Charter Schools Association is a system of eight charter schools that including schools affiliated with NOPS and the RSD.
- Eisenhower Elementary
- Fischer Elementary
- Harte Elementary
- Edna Karr High School
- Martin Behrman Elementary
- McDonogh 32
- O. Perry Walker High School
- Tubman High School
- Algiers Technology Academy
[edit] Schools that have not opened yet
- Abrams School
- Abramson High School(possibly a math and science center)
- Alexander Elementary (McDonogh 39)
- Allen Elementary (Permanently changed to Science and Math High)
- Alternative High
- Armstrong School (McDonogh #19)
- Ash School
- Augustine Middle (S. J. Peters)
- Baudit Elementary
- Bell Jr. High
- Bienville School
- Bradley School
- Carver Middle
- Carver High
- Chester School
- Coghill School
- Crocker Elementary
- Crossman Elementary
- Drew Elementary
- Dunbar School
- Edison School
- Edwards School
- Fisk-Howard School
- Fortier High School (Permanently changed to Lusher Charter)
- Frantz School
- Gaudet School
- Gentilly Terrace Elementary
- Gordon School
- Gregory Jr. High School
- Guste School
- Haley School (Gayarre)
- Hansberry School
- Hardin School
- Harte
- Hoffman School
- Hughes School (Edward Douglas White)
- Hynes School
- Jackson School
- Moris F.X. Jeff Elementary (McDonogh #31)
- Jones Elementary
- Jordan School (McDonogh #40)
- Kennedy High(possibly becoming an elderly nursing home)
- Lafon School
- Lake Area Middle (Schaumburg Elementary)
- Landry High
- Lawless High
- Little Woods School
- Livingston Middle
- Lockett School
- Marshall Middle (Beauregard)
- McDonogh 7
- Mondy Elementary
- Mondy School (William O. Rogers)
- Morial Elementary
- New Orleans East Educational Center
- NOPS Technology Center
- Osborne Elementary
- Parkview Fundamental Magnet (Claiborne)
- Phillips Jr. High
- Schaumburg School
- Shaw School
- Sherwood Forest School
- Terrell Magnet
- Urban League Street Academy
- Village De L'est School (became Einstein Charter School)
- Washington, Booker T., High (was to become a trade school pre-Katrina)
- Water Elementary
- Wheatly School
- Williams, Fannie Middle School
- Williams, Sylvanie School
- Wilson School
- Woodson Middle
- Jean Gordon Elementary
[edit] Accidents and incidents
At least one fatal incident has occurred in an NOPS-governed school:
- April 14, 2003: 2003 John McDonogh High School shooting - Two armed men entered the gymnasium and shot Jonathan "Caveman" Williams to death while injuring three girls next to him.
[edit] External links
- New Orleans Public Schools (Board of Education)
- Warren Easton in Exile
- New Orleans Schools (NOLA Recovery School District)
- The future of public education in New Orleans
- Too Good to be True - A 1997 report about rise of test scores in the New Orleans Public Schools
- Looted - A 1998 report about items taken from NOPS schools by looters
- Magnet Schools Under Fire - A 1998 report about New Orleans magnet schools
