Bowling Green School

Bowling Green School is a Pre-K through 12th Grade, college prep, private school located in Franklinton, Louisiana, United States, in Washington parish.[1]

For other uses, see Bowling Green City School District.
Bowling Green School
Location
Franklinton, Louisiana
Coordinates30°50′19″N 90°9′25″W
Information
TypeNon-sectarian college prep
Established1969 (1969)
PrincipalPhill Junkins
GradesPreK - 12
Enrollment335
Color(s)Green, Gold and White
Team nameBuccaneers
Websitewww.bgsbucs.com

The school colors are Green, Gold and White. The school mascot is the Buccaneer.

History

The school was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy by white parents seeking to avoid racially integrated public schools.[2] 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 [2]

In 1999, Bowling Green enrolled its first black student.[3] 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.[3] 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[3]

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 no
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
  1. "Bowling Green School". Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  2. Brumfield v. Dodd, 405 F. Supp. 338 (E.D. La. 1975)
  3. Moses v. Wash Prsh Sch Bd Case: 03-30627 (5th Cir. 2004)
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