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School in Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riverdale Academy is a private school in East Point, Louisiana, United States. Located outside Coushatta, Riverdale is the only private K-12 school in Red River Parish.
Riverdale Academy | |
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Coordinates | 32.163935°N 93.4302159°W |
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School type | Private |
Opened | Fall 1970 |
Principal | Dr. Hunter Brown |
Grades | Pre-K-12 |
Gender | Any |
Enrolment | 247 |
Average class size | 18 |
Fight song | Raging Rebels |
Sports | football, basketball, baseball, softball, track, golf, cheer, danceline |
Mascot | Rebel |
Accreditation | Mississippi Association of Independent Schools |
Website | riverdaleacademy |
The main building of Riverdale Academy was built in the 1920s as East Point School, a public K-8 school.[1] In response to a desegregation order resulting from a 1966 court case (U.S. v. Red River Parish School Board, C.A. No. 12169, W.D. La., filed July, 1966)[2] and population loss, numerous schools in Red River Parish had been consolidated or closed by 1970. East Point School was sold for $501.50 on January 8, 1970, to Florane House Movers,[3] which then turned over the property to a parents group to form a new segregation academy.
The school opened in the fall of 1970 as a segregation academy.[4] Its mascot is the Raging Rebels .[5]
Riverdale, like other private schools in Louisiana, gets state support in the form of tax deductions for tuition, tuition grants for low income children, buses, and lunches.[6] Louisiana provides transportation of students to all schools public and private, as long as the school does not have discriminatory policies.[7]
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