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John F. Kennedy High School (Louisiana)

high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6232364 ↗
Source-derived summary

John F. Kennedy High School is a high school located in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States. It is a charter school under the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB).

History

Original John F. Kennedy High School

The original John F. Kennedy High School located in City Park closed due to flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005.

Greater Gentilly High School

In August 2009, a $39 million school building opened at 6026 Paris Ave. and became Greater Gentilly High School.

Lake Area New Tech Early College High School

In 2011, Greater Gentilly High School and Thurgood Marshall Early College High School merged and Lake Area New Tech Early College High School opened in the former Greater Gentilly High School building.

John F. Kennedy High School

In July 2018, John F. Kennedy High School reopened in the former Greater Gentilly and Lake Area New Tech Early College High School building and was run by the New Beginnings Schools Foundation. In July 2019, it was announced that The New Beginnings Foundation would relinquish control of John F. Kennedy following a grade-changing scandal.

In August 2019 KIPP New Orleans stated that it was interested in taking management of this school. OPSB Superintendent Henderson Lewis, Jr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “John F. Kennedy High School (Louisiana)” as high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2009, 2011, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018. The account is most persuasive where John, Kennedy and High can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6232364. Authority coordinates are 30.015, -90.086. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2018.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Institutional context
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “John F. Kennedy High School (Louisiana)”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “John F. Kennedy High School (Louisiana)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.