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How much has your elementary/middle/high school changed?
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:30 pm
I'm a proud survivor of the Jefferson Parish school system (trashy I know). I went to Terrytown Elementary, Livadaus Middle, and Ehret High. Growing up, all those schools were 50/50 black and white. Terrytown Elem got rebuilt after Katrina and looks nice but Livadaus and Ehret still look like prisons. Demographically, Terrytown elementary is now 70% hispanic, Livadaus is 60% hispanic, and Ehret is still 50% black but a lot less white. Talk about change.
This post was edited on 9/14/22 at 10:47 pm
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Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:30 pm to yaboidarrell
Haven’t stepped foot on campus since graduating.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:32 pm to yaboidarrell
No idea but from what I’ve heard from people who still live in the community, the Indian (from India) population has risen significantly.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:32 pm to yaboidarrell
No clue about elementary and middle. Highschool has changed a lot and I’m not 100% sure for the better.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:32 pm to yaboidarrell
Demographics remain the same, but Caledonia (MS) changed its mascot from the Confederates to Cavaliers this past year. Of interesting note is the elementary school - a Blue Ribbon school and state top five best - has had only two different principals since 1944.
This post was edited on 9/14/22 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:32 pm to yaboidarrell
My elementary school is now a bnb and apartment complex. Then again, it was built in 1905.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:35 pm to yaboidarrell
All of my schooling was done in Corpus Christi. My HS was probably close to 45-45-10 (White-Hispanic-Black). It’s changed a lot to me, but a lot less compared to the stories that will be shared on here. My guess is that it’s 35-50-15 or somewhere close.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:36 pm to OMLandshark
quote:greatschools.org for demographic info
Haven’t stepped foot on campus since graduating.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:36 pm to yaboidarrell
All of them have closed except the high school
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:37 pm to yaboidarrell
It hasn’t changed one bit/. They are actually still wearing the same uniforms….and I graduated over 50 years ago! 
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:37 pm to yaboidarrell
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Terrytown elementary is 70% hispanic, Livadaus is 60% hispanic
All US citizens no doubt.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:41 pm to yaboidarrell
They have been rebuilt and are essentially unrecognizable from when I went there. The students seem to be about the same though, unlike my Dad who went to a HS that was 100% white (segregation) and well regarded to a school that is now 100% black and resembles a war zone.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:45 pm to yaboidarrell
No idea. Depends on how many vouchers they accept now
Posted on 9/14/22 at 10:47 pm to yaboidarrell
It has air conditioning now. AC was installed the year after I graduated.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 11:21 pm to yaboidarrell
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proud survivor of the Jefferson Parish school system (trashy I know)
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Livadaus Middle
Livaudais Middle. Way to rep that West Bank public school education.
Just kidding, I'm an east bank Jeff Parish public school brat myself.
I attended Alice Birney one year then Riviere. I've looked up the numbers and both are a lot more "diverse" than they were in the 70s.
My middle/jr. high school, Haynes, is now a high school for smart kids (Haynes Academy, basically the Ben Franklin of Jefferson Parish).
I went one year to EJ then with the co-ed switch finished up at Grace King. Grace King has experienced probably the biggest change; when I went there it was the cream of the east bank with a rather well-off district along the lake from the Orleans Parish line to Kenner. Our district was so white, we had to have a busing district down in Bunche Village to get black students -- at the time we had to have about 10% black students to match the other east bank schools (EJ, Bonnabel and Riverdale).
That's very different now. The school is full of minority kids living in the apartment complexes along I-10, in Fat City, and along the Carrollton/Lake Ave. corridor. GK no longer needs a busing district. Whites are third behind hispanics and blacks (which I'm pretty sure is the case all across the Jeff Parish public school system).
The GK football team still sucks, but with all the hispanics, the soccer team made the state championship a few years back.
Public schools now have to wear uniforms; we never did back in the day.
I went to 2nd grade in Biloxi at a school called Jefferson Davis Elementary; it's now Back Bay Elementary.
Oh, and back in my day Livaudais were the Rebels: at some point it was changed to the Lions.
This post was edited on 9/15/22 at 10:08 am
Posted on 9/14/22 at 11:59 pm to yaboidarrell
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 2:04 am to yaboidarrell
My high school had a class favorite black and class favorite white category. Pretty sure that’s no longer the case. Lol
Posted on 9/15/22 at 2:16 am to yaboidarrell
In Baton Rouge, Sherwood Forest Elementary closed long ago turning into a school system resource center, Sherwood Forest Junior High is now an academic magnet middle school, Broadmoor High School was 95% Caucasian and now is 95% African American. I attended these schools from late 60's thru late 70's.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 3:43 am to yaboidarrell
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greatschools.org for demographic info
ACADEMICS
Student Progress
1
/10
Students at this school are making far less academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Very low progress with low test scores means students are starting at a low point and falling even farther behind their peers.
Anyone reading this should go to Judge John Parker's grave, sigh, then piss all over it.
Posted on 9/15/22 at 4:00 am to Hangit
10
/10
Students at this school are making far more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
High progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing an excellent job at supporting academic growth compared to most other schools.
5
/10
Students at this school are making average academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Average progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and students in this school are learning at the same rate as similar students in other schools
3
/10
Students at this school are making less academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Low progress with low test scores means... that students are starting at a low point and falling farther behind their peers.
Westdale Elem, McKinley Middle Magnet and Tara. Middle school is a shocker, I guess the EBRSB insisted on screwing that school up.
/10
Students at this school are making far more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
High progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing an excellent job at supporting academic growth compared to most other schools.
5
/10
Students at this school are making average academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Average progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and students in this school are learning at the same rate as similar students in other schools
3
/10
Students at this school are making less academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Low progress with low test scores means... that students are starting at a low point and falling farther behind their peers.
Westdale Elem, McKinley Middle Magnet and Tara. Middle school is a shocker, I guess the EBRSB insisted on screwing that school up.
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