born and raised in the lower 9th ward. Education New Orleans Public Schools operates district public schools, while Recovery School District oversees charter schools. Dr. King Charter School (K-12) is located in the Lower 9th. Alfred Lawless High School was the only public high school that operated in the Lower 9th until Hurricane Katrina affected New Orleans on August 29, 2005. The previous Holy Cross High School campus was located in the Lower Ninth Ward. In August 2007 students from Carver High School and Marshall Middle School began studying at temporary trailers on the site of Holy Cross. In September of that year the students were to move to another set of trailers in the original Carver/Marshall campus in the Desire Area. In popular culture The 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, was filmed along sections of the Mississippi River embankment and inside the Jackson Barracks. When the Levees Broke (2006), a documentary about the Katrina disaster directed by Spike Lee, was produced and shown on HBO. The film covered damage in the Lower Ninth Ward and other areas of the city. Your Honor, a 2020 American television limited series, features the Lower Ninth Ward and its people there who are affected by drug addiction, poverty, violence and gang activity. Cut Throat City, is a 2020 American heist film featuring four young men from the Lower Ninth Ward who turn to a life of crime to escape poverty just after Hurricane Katrina. See also New Orleans neighborhoods New Orleans, Louisiana Wards of New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Oil Storm External links Lower 9th Ward neighborhood snapshot dealing with the area in back of St. Claude Avenue Holy Cross neighborhood snapshot dealing with the area from St. Claude to the River Photographs of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in the Lower Ninth Ward A Slideshow of photographic portraits and interview recordings of residents of the 9th Ward, focusing on the post-Katrina rebuilding process References Neighborhoods in New Orleans