As we continue to prepare for Hurricane Gustav and support school communities across the state, we continue to receive information on school district closures.
As of 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 31, the following school districts have contacted the Department of Education with their closure plans for Hurricane Gustav: (The asterisk represents a change from the list that was published on Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.)
Acadia (Tuesday)
Allen (Tuesday)
*Ascension Parish - (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Assumption (Tuesday)
*Beauregard (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Bogalusa City (Tuesday)
*Calcasieau (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Cameron (Tuesday and Wednesday)
*East Feliciana (Tuesday and School Board Meeting Tuesday Cancelled)
Iberia (Tuesday)
*Iberville Parish - (Tuesday)
Jefferson Davis (Tuesday and Wednesday)
*Lafayette (Tuesday and Wednesday - had previously announced Tuesday)
*Lafourche (Tuesday and Wednesday)
*Livingston Parish - (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Orleans (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Plaquemines (Tuesday)
Pointe Coupee (Tuesday)
Recovery School District (Tuesday and Wednesday)
St. Charles (Tuesday and Wednesday)
St. Helena (Tuesday)
St. James (Monday and Tuesday)
St. John (Tuesday and Wednesday)
*St. Martin (Tuesday and Wednesday - had previously announced Tuesday)
St. Mary (Tuesday)
St. Tammany (Tuesday)
*Tangipahoa (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Terrebonne (Tuesday)
Vermillion (Tuesday)
Washington (Tuesday)
*West Baton Rouge (Tuesday)
School for the Deaf (Monday and Tuesday)
School for the Visually Impaired (Monday and Tuesday)
*Vermillion (Tuesday and Wednesday - had previously announced Tuesday)
Please check back with us periodically if possible, and forward us questions or information that we can share with others across the state. We appreciate the cooperation, collaboration and support of the dozens of organizations and hundreds of individuals who are working to ensure our education system is poised to respond to this very serious hurricane.
