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'''False River Academy''' (commonly '''False River''', or '''FRA''') is a nonsectarian private school located in [[New Roads, Louisiana]], in [[Pointe Coupee Parish]]. It serves grades Pre-K through 12. The school is independent, and has its own school board. Its enrollment is drawn from Pointe Coupee and surrounding parishes. It is one of two private schools and one of three high schools in the parish. |
'''False River Academy''' (commonly '''False River''', or '''FRA''') is a nonsectarian private school located in [[New Roads, Louisiana]], in [[Pointe Coupee Parish]]. It serves grades Pre-K through 12. The school is independent, and has its own school board. Its enrollment is drawn from Pointe Coupee and surrounding parishes. It is one of two private schools and one of three high schools in the parish. |
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It was founded as a [[segregation academy]] in 1969. Its first non-white students enrolled in the late 1990s. In 2005, somewhat more students of ethnic minorities enrolled after [[Hurricane Katrina]] displaced them from the New Orleans area. As of 2014, the school was 96% white. In 2022, the school was 75% whitehttps://www.usnews.com/education/k12/louisiana/false-river-academy-312704 |
It was founded as a [[segregation academy]] in 1969. Its first non-white students enrolled in the late 1990s. In 2005, somewhat more students of ethnic minorities enrolled after [[Hurricane Katrina]] displaced them from the New Orleans area. As of 2014, the school was 96% white. In 2022, the school was 75% white{{Cite web |title=False River Academy |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/louisiana/false-river-academy-312704 |access-date=26 April 2026 |website=[[US News]]}} in a city and parish that were 60% and 35% Black, respectively, in the most recent census.{{cite web |title=U.S. Census website |url=https://www.census.gov |access-date=2008-01-31 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}} |
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During the 2013-2014 school year, the school had 483 students and 29.4 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolName=false+river+academy&NumOfStudentsRange=more&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=01650295|title = Search for Private Schools - School Detail for FALSE RIVER ACADEMY}} |
During the 2013-2014 school year, the school had 483 students and 29.4 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolName=false+river+academy&NumOfStudentsRange=more&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=01650295|title = Search for Private Schools - School Detail for FALSE RIVER ACADEMY}} |
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