The buildings are housing military personnel and FEMA workers. This is in Bywater next to the Ninth Ward and did not receive the extensive floodwater that the lower part received. It did have flooding but was able to house "first responders" after the second week following Katrina.
It was an all-girls Catholic school owned by the Marianite Order of Sisters. It was considered the "sister-school" to Holy Cross' all boys school.
It now houses senior citizens.