Yellow school buses bounced down a mostly-empty Royal Street on Monday morning, pausing to drop students off at the historic French Quarter building known as the “Little Red Schoolhouse” while curious onlookers watched from their balconies.
After a two-year hiatus that left the neighborhood without a school for the first time since the Ursuline nuns established one in the 1720s, school is back in session in the French Quarter.
This week, Lycée Français De La Nouvelle-Orleans, a French immersion charter school, moved its youngest students into the historic red-brick building at 721 St. Philip St. that has been vacant since Homer Plessy Community Schools moved out in 2023…