Frederick A. Douglass High School (New Orleans)

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Frederick A. Douglass High School
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Frederick A. Douglass High School (New Orleans)
3820 St. Claude Ave.

New Orleans
,
Louisiana
70117

United States
Coordinates 29°57′55″N90°02′13″W / 29.9654°N 90.0370°W / 29.9654; -90.0370
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TypePublic charter high school
Opened1940, Reestablished 2019
School district Orleans Parish School Board
Campus typeInner-city
Color(s)Navy, gray and white
Athletics LHSAA
Team nameBobcats
Website https://frederickadouglass.kippneworleans.org/

Frederick A. Douglass High School is a high school at 3820 St. Claude Avenue in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. The school is a public charter school.

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History

The land on which the school location stands was originally part of the Louis Barthelemy Macarty plantation. After Macarty died in 1846, philanthropist John McDonogh purchased the property and donated it to the City of New Orleans. [1] McDonough also donated other properties and money for use of New Orleans public schools. [2]

McDonogh No. 12

From 1880 to 1939, McDonogh No. 12, was located on the site on St. Claude Avenue.

Francis T. Nicholls High School

McDonogh No. 12 was demolished to make way for Francis T. Nicholls High School. Initially named for Francis T. Nicholls, a former Confederate general, governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the school opened as a segregated white institution on January 29, 1940. The Nicholls High school newspaper was named The Rebel Yell. [2]

Frederick Douglass Senior High School

During the middle 1990s, having since long been desegregated, Nicholls High School was renamed Frederick Douglass Senior High School in honor of the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass of Maryland. [2] The renaming of the school was part of a campaign to remove the names of Confederate leaders from public schools in Orleans Parish.

During the 1990s, Nicholls/Douglass faced increased narcotics usage and crime in the surrounding area. Stronger students abandoned the school for magnet schools with selective admissions, such as McDonogh 35. "People considered Douglass totally out of control," said Vincent Lee Nzinga (born November 1941), [3] a Ninth Ward resident who became the principal in 1997. Custodians even declined to stock the school with trash cans and toilet paper. The school had seven principals in a four-year period and a large turnover of teachers. [4]

In 2008, Orleans Parish had about 33,000 students, compared to its peak of 115,000 in 1970. In recent years, white flight to the suburbs, a weak economy with lack of employment prospects, and Hurricane Katrina all took their toll on the community, its schools, and families. [4] In December 2008, unruly pupils set six fires at Douglass High School in either trash cans or bathrooms. [5]

Because of repeated poor academic performance, Douglass High School was taken over and governed by the statewide Recovery School District. [6] In 2010, the school had only 291 pupils (since 296) in grades nine through twelve, virtually all blacks, ten students for every instructor. More than 70 percent were then eligible for free or reduced-priced lunches. [7]

KIPP Renaissance High School

In 2010, KIPP Renaissance High School was founded in the former Nicholls High School and Douglass High School building. [8] The school became a public charter school under the management of KIPP New Orleans Schools. In 2016, KIPP Renaissance earned an "A" letter grade from the Louisiana Department of Education. [9] [10]

Frederick A. Douglass High School

In 2019, KIPP Renaissance High School name was reverted to Frederick A. Douglass High School. The high school remained a public charter school under the management of KIPP New Orleans Schools. [11] [12]

Athletics

Douglass High School athletics competes in the LHSAA. [13]

The Nicholls High School sports teams were nicknamed the "Rebels". [2] The Douglass Senior High School sports teams were renamed "Bobcats" in the early 1990s. [14] Bobcats remained the sports teams nickname when it became KIPP Renaissance and the nickname remained Bobcats when the school was renamed Douglass High School in 2019. [11]

Notable alumni

Francis T. Nicholls High School

See also

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Francis T. Nicholls High School (Class of 1963)". old-new-Orleans.com. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Vincent Nzinga, November 1941". Louisiana Secretary of State . Retrieved June 30, 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. 1 2 Sarah Carr (September 20, 2008). "Long-troubled Douglass High could lose its identity". New Orleans Times-Picayune . Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ramon Antonio Vargas (December 10, 2008). "Six fires set at Frederick Douglass Senior High School in the past week". The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Bye, bye Recovery School District; hello Orleans School Board: 9 schools set to transfer". nola.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Frederick A. Douglass High School". education.com. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  8. ↑ "KIPP Renaissance High School". kipp.org. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  9. ↑ "KIPP Renaissance High School". k12.niche.com. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  10. ↑ "KIPP Renaissance High hopes to add first-class football program to strong academics". kipp.org. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
  11. 1 2 "KNOS celebrates name restoration of Frederick A. Douglass High School, Booker T. Washington Returns to original Lions' den". kippneworleans.org. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  12. ↑ "KIPP New Orleans given OK to take over high school at center of grade-fixing scandal". nola.com. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Frederick A Douglass High School". lhsaa.org. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ "KIPP Renaissance High School". hudl.com. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Condolesences upon the death of former state representative Edward "Bud Rip" Ripoll, Jr., of New Orleans" (PDF). lanewsbureau.com. 2006. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
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