Bowling Green School
The school colors are green, gold and white. The school mascot is the Buccaneer.
History
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The school was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy by white parents seeking to avoid racially integrated public schools. In 1975, a federal court ordered the state of Louisiana to stop providing textbooks and school bus service to Bowling Green school. The court ruled that substantial state assistance to the racially segregated Bowling Green School violated of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
In 1999, Bowling Green enrolled its first black student. The same year, the school applied to state of Louisiana Department of Education to be certified as no longer racially discriminatory thus make its graduates eligible for the TOPS scholarship program. After the federal Justice Department directed the state not to certify the school as nondiscriminatory, Bowling Green School filed suit in federal court. The district court found that Bowling Green had not demonstrated a good faith commitment to eliminating the vestiges of past discrimination and has not made meaningful progress toward becoming a nondiscriminatory school. In 2004, the ruling was upheld by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Statistics
Statistics from National Center for Education Statistics and are based on the 2003–2004 school year.
Characteristics
Locale Small Town Type Regular elementary or secondary Affiliation Nonsectarian Student Body Coed Days in School Year 180 Hours in School Day 6.9 Library yes Total Teachers (FTE) 22.3 Total Students 352 Students K-12 328 Student/Teacher Ratio 14.7
Enrollment by race/ethnicity
American Indian/Alaskan Native 0 Asian/Pacific Islander 0 Hispanic 4 Black, non-Hispanic 3 White, non-Hispanic 245
Athletics
Championships
Football championships
- (2) Championships: 1983, 1997
References
- ^ "Bowling Green School". Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ Brumfield v. Dodd, 405 F. Supp. 338 (E.D. La. 1975)
- ^ Moses v. Wash Prsh Sch Bd Case: 03-30627 (5th Cir. 2004)
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