Uptown-based Orleans Parish School Board districts 5 and 6
Supporters of moving Johnson Elementary to the old Priestley site will make their case to state and parish school officials Monday night at a public hearing on school plans in School Board District 6, which includes the Carrollton, Audubon and university neighborhoods in Uptown New Orleans.
School officials have said these meetings will be a crucial part of the process of dividing a $2 billion FEMA settlement to rebuild schools across the city. After public hearings have been held in each school board district, officials have said they will create a final draft of the plan based on the comments they receive.
The District 6 meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at the McMain High School, 5712 S. Claiborne Ave. School buildings in District 6 are listed below, according to their placement in the current plan:
Phase 1 (in progress)
- Audubon (Audubon Charter) – Designed, $12.8 million renovation
Phase 2 (funded)
- Bethune (Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary) – $4.4 million classroom addition
- Dunbar site – $23.9 million new school
- Fisk-Howard site – $23.9 million new school
- Lafayette (Lafayette Charter) – $22.2 million renovation
- Johnson (James Weldon Johnson Elementary) – $15.8 million renovation
Phase 3 (unfunded)
- Crossman (Esperanza Charter) – $12.4 million renovation
- Lusher (Lusher Charter Elementary) – $14.6 million renovation
Removed from plan, no longer needed
- New Jeff (TBD site)
- Priestley – vacant and secured
No improvements planned
- Audubon Extension (Audubon Charter)
- Banneker (Benjamin Banneker Elementary)
- McNair (KIPP Believe College Prep)
Landbanked
- Augustine – vacant and secured
- Chester – demolished
- Derham – demolition in summer 2011
- LaSalle – sold
- Terrell – vacant and secured, demolition in 2011
The meeting for neighboring District 5, which runs from Uptown to the Lower Garden District, is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at Dryades YMCA, 2220 O.C. Haley Blvd.
