The school is located in Chalmette, a suburb of New Orleans. Chalmette's history is interesting in that it was the location of the famous Battle of New Orleans where the United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated the British in 1815.
On August 29, 2005 an enormous storm surge was pushed by Hurricane Katrina up the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used commercial channel dug by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s. The entire town was innundated, up to 30 feet in some places. As a result, in a matter of hours, Chalmette was almost entirely destroyed. A mile to the west, the 9th ward of New Orleans was similarly flooded.
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