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Avery Island Elementary School (Avery Island, K–6 Unincorporated area) (closed 2008) - students were re-zoned to Center Street Elementary School [8] Bank Avenue Elementary School ( New Iberia , 5–6) [ 9 ]
Students attend schools in New Iberia. Students are zoned to Center Street Elementary School, [8] Iberia Middle School, and New Iberia Senior High School. [9] Avery Island Elementary School (K-6) formerly served the community. [10] After the 2007–2008 school year, students from Avery Island Elementary were moved to Center Street Elementary ...
The New Iberia High School building, now the School Days Apartments, is a former school house for New Iberia Senior High School and historic structure located at 415 Center Street in New Iberia, Louisiana. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1994. [2]
From 1966 to 1990, New Iberia High School (1926 building) was located in a different building at 415 Center Street in New Iberia. [5] African-American students were segregated from schools until the passage of a series of law changes starting with Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
New Iberia (French: La Nouvelle-Ibérie; [a] Spanish: Nueva Iberia [b]) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [3] The city of New Iberia is located approximately 21 miles (34 kilometers) southeast of Lafayette, and forms part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area in the region of Acadiana.
The school was opened on January 9, 1950, on Anderson Street, and was planned to be named New Iberia Colored High School. [3] [4] At the time of opening the name was changed to "Jonas Henderson High School" to honor local teacher, Jonas Henderson Sr. (1890–1933) who taught at Howe Institute (c. 1893 to 1933), a former private African American Baptist school.
Until 1957, the school, established in 1918, had been called St. Peter's College, and was situated close to the church of the same name in the middle of New Iberia. The school catered for boys from 4th-12th grade. At the same time as the move to a new campus, the Brothers transferred ownership of the school to the Catholic parishes of the town.
The Howe Institute was an African-American private Baptist primary and grammar school in operation from c. 1888 to 1933 in New Iberia, Louisiana. [1] [2] The founding president of the school was Jonas Henderson. [3] A historical marker for the school is located at the Iberia Parish Court Building in New Iberia. [1]