Riverdale Academy (Louisiana)

This article is about a private school. For public high school, see Riverdale High School (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana).

Riverdale Academy
Address
Louisiana Highway 515 Ark-La-Tex Coushatta , Red River Parish, Louisiana , Louisiana 71019
Coordinates	32.163935°N 93.4302159°W / 32.163935; -93.4302159
Information
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.org

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.

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]

State support

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]

See also

• List of high schools in Louisiana
• List of school districts in Louisiana
• Red River Parish School District

References

1. "Coushatta School History". Red River Parish Journal. April 27, 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
2. School Desegregation: A Report of State and Federal Judicial and Administrative Activity as of September 1977. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1977. p. 18. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
3. Hearings before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the United States Senate June 15, 16, and 17, 1970. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1970. p. 1150. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
4. "The South Magazine". Vol. 5. The South Magazine. 1978. p. 35. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
5. History - Riverdale Academy.
6. Ballard, Mike (January 25, 2016). "Breaks for private school parents could be on the line for budget cutting". The Advocate (Baton Rouge). Retrieved 16 January 2018.
7. "Title 17 Education". State of Louisiana. Retrieved 16 January 2018.