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Jefferson Parish Public Schools is a school district based in Harvey in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The district operates all district public schools in Jefferson Parish and covers the entire parish. [ 3 ]
St. Agnes School - It was created in 1941. [15] The school accepted school vouchers. [16] From the 2013-2014 school year to the 2014-2015 school year enrollment declined by 27%, the most severe of any Catholic school in the parish. [2] In 2014 it had 161 students, [17] and then in 2015, its year of closure, it had 125 students.
Most Louisiana school districts are parish school districts while some are city school districts. The U.S. Census Bureau counts both types as independent governments. Special School District 1, which has gifted education facilities, is directly under the authority of the state government, not counted by the Census Bureau as its own government.
Harvey is within the Jefferson Parish Public School System, [21] which has its headquarters in Harvey. [22] [23] West Jefferson High School is the sole zoned public high school in the Harvey CDP. [24] A portion of Harvey in the south is zoned to John Ehret High School, and a portion to the northwest is zoned to L. W. Higgins High School. [25]
Avondale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The population was 4,582 in 2020. [2] It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
The Jefferson Parish Public School System (JPPSS) operates district public schools. [11] Most residents are zoned to: [12] Jefferson PreK-8 School in Jefferson for elementary and middle school, while some are zoned to Harahan PreK-8 School in Harahan for those levels. [13] [14] All residents are zoned to Riverdale High School in Jefferson. [15]
John Ehret High School is a four-year public high school serving grades 9–12 located in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, near the Marrero census-designated place (it has a Marrero postal address). [2] The school, a part of the Jefferson Parish Public Schools, has an attendance boundary that includes several ...