Alcee Fortier High School

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Alcée Fortier High School was a high school in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is five blocks away from McMain Secondary School.

Named for the renowned professor of Romance Languages at Tulane, Alcee Fortier, the school opened in 1931. Originally Fortier was an all-boys school.

In 1992 Michael Lach and Michael Loverude of the Christian Science Monitor stated "Based on test scores, dropout rates, and socioeconomic status of the students, the schools we taught in were two of the worst high schools in the country - Booker T. Washington and Alcee Fortier high schools. Given these circumstances, both schools do a fine job, but students leave deserving so much more." In 2006 John Schmid of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that Fortier was considered to be one of the "worst" schools in Louisiana. According to Christine Briley, a then 17-year-old former student quoted in The Providence Journal in 2005, many fights occurred at the school and students physically attacked teachers. Around 2003 it made an "academically unacceptable" list.

Lusher Charter School's secondary campus opened in the former Fortier building.

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Curriculum

The school offered German after its 1931 opening. About 150 students per academic period studied German. German was discontinued in the New Orleans school system in 1938 as World War II broke out.

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Notable alumni

• Ashley Ambrose - NFL Cornerback from 1992-2004 played for several teams including the Atlanta Falcons (2002-2003) New Orleans Saints (1999) and (2003-2004)
• Edward S. Bopp (Class of 1949), New Orleans lawyer and former state representative
• Edmund Graves Brown, newspaper executive
• Victor Gold (Class of 1945)
• Russell Long - U.S. senator from 1948 to 1987
• Howard K. Smith - television journalist
• Matthew Teague, American football player
• Norman Treigle, operatic bass-baritone
• John Kennedy Toole
• Dave Treen (Class of 1945), governor of Louisiana from 1980 to 1984
• Tony Washington (American football player) - Played American football in his junior year, moved to University School of Las Colinas because of Hurricane Katrina
• Aeneas Williams - member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

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References

• Merrill, Ellen C. Germans Of Louisiana. Pelican Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1455604844, 9781455604845.

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Notes

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