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3820 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
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Francis T. Nicholls High School and later Frederick Douglass High School are the former names of a high school at 3820 St. Claude Avenue in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. Initially named for Francis T. Nicholls, a former Confederate general, governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the school opened as a segregated white institution on January 29, 1940. During the middle 1990s, having since long been desegregated, Nicholls High School was renamed in honor of the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass of Maryland. The school has since been again reorganized and renamed. The Douglass building is now home to a public charter school known as KIPP Renaissance High School which earned an "A" letter grade from the Louisiana Department of Education in 2016.
