Riverdale Academy is a

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, Riverdale is the only private K-12 school in

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. The main building of Riverdale Academy was built in the 1920s as East Point School, a public K-8 school. In response to a desegregation order resulting from a 1966 court case (U.S. v. Red River Parish School Board, C.A. No. 12169, W.D. La., filed July, 1966) and population loss, numerous schools in Red River Parish had been consolidated or closed by 1970. East Point School was sold for $501.50 on January 8, 1970, to Florane House Movers, which then turned over the property to a parents group to form a new segregation academy. The school opened in the fall of 1970 as a

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State support

Riverdale, like other private schools in Louisiana, gets state support in the form of tax deductions for tuition, tuition grants for low income children, buses, and lunches. Louisiana provides transportation of students to all schools public and private, as long as the school does not have discriminatory policies.

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