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KIPP Renaissance High School is a high school at 3820 St. Claude Avenue in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. The school is a public charter school.

History

The land on which the school location stands was originally part of the Louis Barthelemy Macarty plantation. After Macarty died in 1846, philanthropist John McDonogh purchased the property and donated it to the City of New Orleans.^[1] McDonough also donated other properties and money for use of New Orleans public schools.^[2]

From 1880 to 1939, McDonogh No. 12, was located on the site on St. Claude Avenue. That school was demolished to make way for Francis T. Nicholls High School. Initially named for Francis T. Nicholls, a former Confederate general, governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the school opened as a segregated white institution on January 29, 1940.

During the middle 1990s, having since long been desegregated, Nicholls High School was renamed Frederick Douglass High School in honor of the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass of Maryland.^[2] The renaming of the school was part of a campaign to remove the names of Confederate leaders from the public square in Orleans Parish.

The Nicholls school sports teams were named "The Rebels"; the school newspaper was The Rebel Yell.^[2] The school's sports teams were renamed "The Bobcats" in the early 1990's.^[3]

During the 1990s, Nicholls faced increased narcotics usage and crime in the surrounding area. Stronger students abandoned Douglass for magnet schools with selective admissions, such as McDonogh 35. "People considered Douglass totally out of control," said Vincent Lee Nzinga (born November 1941),^[4] a Ninth Ward resident who became the principal in 1997. Custodians even declined to stock the school with trash cans and toilet paper. The school had seven principals in a four-year period and a large turnover of teachers.^[5]

In 2008, Orleans Parish had about 33,000 students, compared to its peak of 115,000 in 1970. In recent years, white flight to the suburbs, a weak economy with lack of employment prospects, and Hurricane Katrina all took their toll on the community, its schools, and families.^[5] In December 2008, unruly pupils set six fires at Douglass High School in either trash cans or bathrooms.^[6]

Because of repeated poor academic performance, Douglass High School before it became KIPP Renaissance, had been governed by the statewide Recovery School District.^[7] In 2010, the school had only 291 pupils (since 296) in grades nine through twelve, virtually all blacks, ten students for every instructor. More than 70 percent were then eligible for free or reduced-priced lunches.^[8]

KIPP Renaissance was founded in 2010 in the former Nicholls High School and Douglass High School building.^[9]

In 2016, KIPP Renaissance earned an "A" letter grade from the Louisiana Department of Education.^[10]^[11]

Notable alumni

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=McDonogh Neighborhood Snapshot|work=Greater New Orleans Community Data Center|url=http://gnocdc.org/Orleans/12/4/snapshot.html|accessdate=2006-04-29|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605173122/http://gnocdc.org/Orleans/12/4/snapshot.html|archivedate=June 5, 2013|df=}}
2. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_Nicholls|title=Francis T. Nicholls High School (Class of 1963)|publisher=old-new-Orleans.com|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hudl.com/team/95770/highlights/60148817|title=KIPP Renaissance High School|publisher=hudl.com|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=1205714|title=Vincent Nzinga, November 1941|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
5. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/longtroubled_douglass_high_cou.html|title=Long-troubled Douglass High could lose its identity|author=Sarah Carr|publisher=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=September 20, 2008|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/students_may_be_to_blame.html|title=Six fires set at Frederick Douglass Senior High School in the past week|date=December 10, 2008|author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=The New Orleans Times-Picayune|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2017/04/charter_return_opsb.html|title=Bye, bye Recovery School District; hello Orleans School Board: 9 schools set to transfer|publisher=nola.com|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.education.com/schoolfinder/us/louisiana/new-orleans/fredrick-a-douglass-high-school/|title=Frederick A. Douglass High School|publisher=education.com|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.kipp.org/school/kipp-renaissance-high-school/|title=KIPP Renaissance High School|publisher=kipp.org|accessdate=December 5, 2018}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://k12.niche.com/kipp-renaissance-high-school-new-orleans-la/|title=KIPP Renaissance High School|publisher=k12.niche.com|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.kipp.org/news/kipp-renaissance-high-hopes-add-first-class-football-program-strong-academics/|title=KIPP Renaissance High hopes to add first-class football program to strong academics|publisher=kipp.org|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lanewsbureau.com/inst/2006SS2/HCR/00/062ES-HCR10_Original.pdf|title=Condolesences upon the death of former state representative Edward "Bud Rip" Ripoll, Jr., of New Orleans|publisher=lanewsbureau.com|date=2006|accessdate=June 30, 2015}}