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Eventually, the Recovery School District (RSD) took over 102 out of 126 schools from the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) in late-November 2005. Of the remaining 24 schools, seven were uninhabitable, 12 became charters, and five remained directly managed by OPSB. [6] In 2018, the RSD schools in New Orleans returned to the supervision of the OPSB.
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.
NOPS was wholly controlled by the OPSB before Hurricane Katrina and was the New Orleans area's largest school district before Katrina devastated the city on August 29, 2005, damaging or destroying more than 100 of the district's 128 school buildings. NOPS served approximately 65,000 students pre-Katrina.
It was named after Sarah Towles Reed and the campus was built to house up to 1,170 students. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2005, as Hurricane Katrina was about to hit land, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) designated Reed High School as a place where people could receive transportation to the Louisiana Superdome , a shelter of last resort.
Three universities, the University of New Orleans, Southern University at New Orleans, and Dillard University are located in Gentilly. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's main campus is also located in Gentilly. [5] New Orleans Public Schools operates district schools, while Recovery School District oversees charter schools. Public ...
The school's building was built in 1937 and was previously the L. E. Rabouin Memorial Trades School, later named the L. E. Rabouin Vocational High School and then L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet School. The Louisiana Recovery School District took over managing the building and former school after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Sophie B. Wright Charter School opened in 2007 as part of the Recovery School District. [5] It serves students in grades 6-12. Beginning in 2013 James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in Carrollton temporarily served as space for Wright. [6] In 2016 the renovations at Wright's permanent building were completed and Wright moved back in. [7]
New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) and the Recovery School District (RSD) operate public schools and handle charter schools in Hollygrove. Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, a school under the NOPS, is located in Hollygrove. In 2005 there was a proposal to close the school.