False River Academy
| False River Academy | |
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201 Major Parkway New Roads, Louisiana 70760 United States |
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| Type | Private School |
| Motto | Where Excellence meets Honor and Tradition |
| Established | 1969 |
| CEEB code | 192214 |
| NCES School ID | 01650295 |
| Principal | Ashley Allen |
| Grades | Pre-K–12 |
| Enrollment | app. 608 (2013) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.6 |
| Campus size | 22.57 acres (9.13 ha) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Maroon and gold |
| Mascot | Gators |
| Accreditations | Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Website | School website |
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 only two private schools, and one of the only three high schools currently located in the parish.
It was founded as a segregation academy in 1969, but has since become a more diverse school. Its first enrollment of non-white students came in the late 1990s. Its largest makeup of ethnic minority students was in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with its enrollment of larger numbers of students displaced from the New Orleans area.
As of the 2013-2014 school year, the school had an enrollment of 483 students and 29.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
As of the 2013-2014 school year, the demographic breakdown of the 483 students enrolled is as follows:
The school was ranked #23 out of 47 on niche.com's 2016 "Most Diverse Private High Schools in Louisiana".
False River Academy was founded in the summer of 1969 as a segregation academy. The founders were upset by what they believed were the negative effects of desegregation. As a result, the school's student body had an exclusively white racial make-up until the late 1990s. As part of an effort to increase diversity, the school offers several minority scholarships.
When the school was founded it operated in temporary buildings on the edge of a sugar cane field in New Roads a short distance from False River. The school took its name from this nearby ox-bow lake. Permanent brick buildings and a gymnasium were added in the 1970s as the school grew.
The school is accredited by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), and holds membership in Louisiana Citizens for Educational Freedom. In 2012, the school became accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI).
Beginning in 2015, the school began offering dual enrollment course for college credit. The dual enrollment course offered include: College Algebra, Trigonometry, Chemistry, English, and Spanish. Credit for the courses can be earned with Louisiana State University or Southeastern Louisiana University.
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