McGehee School
in New Orleans, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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The Louise S. McGehee School is an all-girls private, independent school in the Garden District in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The McGehee campus, which is one city block, has ten buildings and over 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of space.Louise S. McGehee School was founded in 1912 by Louise Schaumburg McGehee and opened in September of that year at 1520 Louisiana Avenue and in 1914 relocated to 1439 Louisiana Avenue. In 1929, Miss McGehee's School moved to the current location at 2343 Prytania St. and became a corporation known as the Louise S. McGehee School. In the fall of 1929, there were 209 students and classes began with the fifth grade. In 1962, a new Lower School building was dedicated for grades K through sixth and in 1973, the first Pre-Kindergarten class started school. In the 1990s, McGehee started an Early Childhood Program "Little Gate" which is a co-educational program for ages one through four. Today, Little Gate has an enrollment of over 150 students.Eli S. Evans, author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, described the school as "[t]he debutante West Point, the playing fields of Eton, the New Orleans version of Choate-Chapin-Cordon Bleu all rolled into one".
