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Edward Douglas White Catholic High School is a private
Private school

Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds....
, Roman Catholic high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux, Louisiana

Thibodaux is a small city in and the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish....
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux

The Diocese of Houma, Louisiana-Thibodaux, Louisiana is a Roman Catholicism in the United States diocese in southeastern Louisiana. It comprises Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana and Lafourche Parish Parishes, the eastern part of St....
.

White Catholic High School was established in 1965 as Thibodaux Central Catholic High School. The school was renamed Edward Douglas White Catholic High School in 1966. The school was established by the merger of Mount Carmel Academy and Thibodaux College, a merger that was hastened by Hurricane Betsy
Hurricane Betsy

Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana....
, which virtually destroyed the two schools.






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Edward Douglas White Catholic High School is a private
Private school

Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds....
, Roman Catholic high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux, Louisiana

Thibodaux is a small city in and the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish....
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux

The Diocese of Houma, Louisiana-Thibodaux, Louisiana is a Roman Catholicism in the United States diocese in southeastern Louisiana. It comprises Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana and Lafourche Parish Parishes, the eastern part of St....
.

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E.D. White Catholic High School was established in 1965 as Thibodaux Central Catholic High School. The school was renamed Edward Douglas White Catholic High School in 1966. The school was established by the merger of Mount Carmel Academy and Thibodaux College, a merger that was hastened by Hurricane Betsy
Hurricane Betsy

Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana....
, which virtually destroyed the two schools.

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