New Orleans VooDoo Football Team adopts Ella Dolhonde!
Join the Ella Dolhonde teachers and the VooDoo Dolls Dance team in a fundraiser for books for our new library. The ladies will play a flag football game on Friday, January 27, at 7:00 pm at Pan American Stadium in City Park. Come out and support your school!! Click here for information!
A Community of Life Long Learners
Ella Dolhonde Elementary School was built in 1926 and originally known as the Eighth Ward School. In 1941, the school was renamed in honor of the first principal, Miss Ella Dolhonde.
Currently, Dolhonde serves grades pre-K through fifth with enrollment exceeding 400. Dolhonde also has special education teachers who work with children of different exceptionalities including children with autism, learning disabled, emotionally disabled, and mild and moderate disabled students. The school has English as a second language classes serving children from around the world. Other services include a speech and language department, social work services, a gifted program, a talented program which includes visual arts and drama, a band program, ball room dancing, and other programs designed to benefit the academic, social, and the emotional development of all our students.
Welcome to Ella Dolhonde's new web page. We hope you will find it easy to use. If you have any questions, please contact Pat Stakenborghs at pat.stakenborghs@jppss.k12.la.us.
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Holidays
January 16, 2012 MLK Day
February 20-22 Mardi Gras