re: The end of an era in Metairie... Two old high schools ending football?

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The rise of magnet schools has drained the enrollment of second-rate privates like Ecole and Ridgewood. Why pay $10,000+/yr when your kid can get an equally good education at Haynes or Pat Taylor?

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I don’t even know if these schools went woke

Crescent City just lost their basketball coach… Shaun Dumas won a few state titles and got there every year, but I think he got tired of LHSAA rules… team probably also wasn’t getting the respect they deserved because of history and people lumping them in with Ecole and Ridgewood.

Now he’s gonna have a program which is just basketball playing a National schedule like AAU and he gets to basically recruit and handpick everyone else’s kids because they won’t be part of the LHSAA.

Ridgewood used to recruit kids to play from local playgrounds, Cleary, Bright, Miley, Pontiff (Metry) .

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And ill be honest for a private school their campus looks terribly outdated. Where is that tuition money going towards?

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I'm sure my dad asked that very same question over the years.

I graduated from Ecole and the only change I can see on campus is they finally tore down that really old little house that was used for pre-K.

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Hopefully they're not on the decline as schools.

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Private school enrollment has been in a 30 year decline

I graduated from St. Martin's in 1986 and played football, baseball, wrestling (State Champion ) against those same district teams... Ecole, Country Day, Crescent City, Newman, etc.. Pretty sure Ecole won 2-3 State Championships in baseball from 1982-1985. Have lots of friends who graduated from EC.

In the early 80's we played against Ganus, Ben Franklin, Belle Chase, Port Sulphur, Boothville-Venice, Fernwood, New Orleans Academy, Lutheran High, and River Oaks Academy. My FR year STM we were in the same district as Curtis 1A and I remember playing against Reggie Dupard (SMU)and Greg Dubroc (LSU). It was definitely one of those 59-0 type games

For those who remember River Oaks, Fernwood, and NOA, you're old like me

I played on the last Ridgewood football team to beat John Curtis. I think it's probably the last time Curtis missed the playoffs. (Yeah, I'm old.)

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I graduated from St. Martin's in 1986

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I remember playing against Reggie Dupard (SMU)and

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Greg Dubroc

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(LSU)

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does not equate...

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Ridgewood used to recruit kids to play from local playgrounds, Cleary, Bright, Miley, Pontiff (Metry) .

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Yeah a kid that I played ball with at Woodlake playground got a partial scholly there I'm pretty sure. Really good baseball player I think he played at Delgado for a spell after high scruel.