page_title: False River Academy
section_title: Student body
hierarchical_section_title: False River Academy / Student body
caption_attribution_description: Aerial photo of w:False River Academy.
context_page_description: False River Academy 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 two private schools and one of three high schools in the parish.
  It was founded as a segregation academy in 1969. Its first non-white students enrolled in the late 1990s. In 2005, somewhat more students of ethnic minorities enrolled after Hurricane Katrina displaced them from the New Orleans area. As of 2014, the school was 96.2% white.
  During the 2013-2014 school year, the school had 483 students and 29.4 classroom teachers, for a student-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
context_section_description: Besides enrolling students from the local New Roads area, many students from throughout Pointe Coupee Parish and surrounding parishes attend this school.  The school enrolls students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade.  During the 2005 and 2006 school years, the school had an influx of students from Hurricane Katrina-destroyed schools in the New Orleans area. During this time, the school had its largest number of ethnic minority students. According to a 2010 Pointe Coupee Parish Chamber of Commerce Report, which was based on Louisiana Department of Education data, the average composite ACT score for the school was a 21.6.  This ranked the school second among the parish's four high schools.
caption: False River Academy in October 2013
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