G. W. Carver High School (New Orleans)

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G. W. Carver High School
Address
3059 Higgins Blvd.

New Orleans
,
Louisiana
70126

United States
Coordinates 29°59′40″N90°02′20″W / 29.9943563°N 90.038997°W / 29.9943563; -90.038997
Information
TypePublic Charter
Established2012
Opened2016
Grades9 to 12
Campus typeInner-city
Color(s)Kelly green and orange
Athletics LHSAA
Team nameRams
Website http://collegiateacademies.org/GWCarverHighSchool

G. W. Carver High School is a high school in the Desire Area, [1] in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. [2] It is a public charter high school.

New Orleans Largest city in Louisiana

New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 391,006 in 2018, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.

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History

George Washington Carver Senior High School

The school originally opened as George Washington Carver Senior High School in 1961. [3] It was a public high school operated by New Orleans Public Schools, then Recovery School District starting in 2005. [4] Prior to Hurricane Katrina the school had about 1,300 students. After Katrina, the original building was demolished. [5] In August 2007, the Recovery School District (RSD) placed students from Carver and Marshall Middle School in twenty-four temporary trailers on the site of Holy Cross High School in the south end of the Lower Ninth Ward. In September 2007, the students were to move to another set of trailers on the original Carver Senior High campus. [1]

Recovery School District (RSD) is a special statewide school district administered by the Louisiana Department of Education. Created by legislation passed in 2003, the RSD is designed to take underperforming schools and transform and make them effective in educating children. While the majority of RSD-supervised schools are within New Orleans and were largely under the administration of the Orleans Parish School Board pre-Katrina, the RSD has also taken over schools in East Baton Rouge, Caddo and Pointe Coupee parishes, reflecting its statewide authority and full name, the Recovery School District of Louisiana (RSDLA). As of 2012 it is the fifth largest school district in Louisiana by student population.

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Carver Collegiate Academy and Carver Preparatory Academy

In 2012, the Recovery School District opted to phase out Carver as a direct-run school and brought in charter school operator Collegiate Academies. [6] Collegiate Academies then opened two charter high schools, George Washington Carver Collegiate Academy (CCA) and George Washington Carver Preparatory Academy (CPA). [6] [7] The schools also moved to Eastern New Orleans before moving back to the original Carver Senior High campus. [8]

Collegiate Academies operates six open enrollment public charter high schools in Louisiana.

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G. W. Carver High School

In 2014, ground was broken on a new building for G. W. Carver Collegiate Academy and G. W. Carver Preparatory Academy on the original Carver Senior High campus. [3] In 2016, the new building was completed and for the opening of the new building, Collegiate Academies merged the two charter academies to become G. W. Carver High School still under the management of the charter school operator. [7]

After hurricane Katrina, the legislature allocated $1.5 million to build a new athletic field for Carver. [9] In 2019, although $1,000,000 had been spent the field had not been built. [10]

Athletics

G. W. Carver athletics competes in the LHSAA. [11] The school offers basketball, football, track and field and volleyball.

Louisiana High School Athletic Association organization

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) is the agency that regulates and promotes the interscholastic athletic competitions of all high schools in the state of Louisiana.

Carver has an on-campus football stadium featuring bleachers and lighting. [12]

Notable alumni

George Washington Carver Senior High School

Sources: [5] [13]

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