Holy Rosary High School is a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

, Roman Catholic high school

High school

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 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana

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. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans

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Background

Holy Rosary High School also educates students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

, dysgraphia

Dysgraphia

Dysgraphia is a deficiency in the ability to write primarily in terms of handwriting, but also in terms of coherence. It occurs regardless of the ability to read and is not due to intellectual impairment...

, language delay, academic anxiety, and/or Attention Deficit Disorder.

History

Holy Rosary High School was established in 2005 when the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods were growing older. The school opened their doors to 33 students, and when Hurricane Katrina hit, 28 students returned to the school. As of 2010 the school now has up to 150 students.