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re: St. Louis King of France (BR) school to close at end of academic year
Posted on 9/22/17 at 6:57 pm to Michael Stein
Posted on 9/22/17 at 6:57 pm to Michael Stein
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Enrollment plummeted while I was there from about 600 to less than 300, and we took on an increasing number of voucher students.
So basically the private school version of forced bussing destroyed the school?
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Posted on 9/22/17 at 7:20 pm to jdeval1
Sort of.
It really just has more to do with the changing demographics of the neighborhood. That area used to be middle class whites like us in the 1980s. Now it's mostly black and Vietnamese with a high percentage of elderly. If you've ever attended Mass at our church, I would say we're split almost perfectly evenly between white, black, and Vietnamese, with a small number of Hispanics.
While that makes for a diverse church, the parish is no longer taking in sufficient income to operate as it once did. North EBR has expanded into the region and driven lots of families like ours away. When I was there, most of our kids came from Sherwood Forest, Greenwell Springs, and Denham Springs. As the Livingston Parish public schools have improved, less parents there sent their kids to St. Louis, and now we're left with mostly North EBR to pull students from.
It really just has more to do with the changing demographics of the neighborhood. That area used to be middle class whites like us in the 1980s. Now it's mostly black and Vietnamese with a high percentage of elderly. If you've ever attended Mass at our church, I would say we're split almost perfectly evenly between white, black, and Vietnamese, with a small number of Hispanics.
While that makes for a diverse church, the parish is no longer taking in sufficient income to operate as it once did. North EBR has expanded into the region and driven lots of families like ours away. When I was there, most of our kids came from Sherwood Forest, Greenwell Springs, and Denham Springs. As the Livingston Parish public schools have improved, less parents there sent their kids to St. Louis, and now we're left with mostly North EBR to pull students from.
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