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Brother Florimond, a Frenchman, replaced Brother Stanislaus as the director of the school for the 1875-6 session. The following ad appeared in the Daily Picayune on September 26, 1875.

First St. Aloysius, Chartres and Barracks Streets

Aloysius faced competition for pupils because the Picayune and the New Orleans Times contained ads for the following private schools (excerpts in italics from the ads):

College of the Immaculate Conception, corner of Baronne and Common streets (conducted by the Jesuits)
Peabody Primary and Grammar School, 247 St. Charles St.
Canal Literary Institution (tuition fee - $2, $2.50, $3 and $4 a month, payable in advance)
Blackman's Commercial College, 131 Carondelet St. (Lessons for ladies in separate apartments.)
The Mount Carmel School for Boys, 683 Magazine Street (Under the especial patronage of His Grace The Most Reverend Archbishop Perche, The Very Reverend Father Provincial of "The Redemptorists" will receive pupils on the 1st day of September. As this is a strictly select school, no boy will be permitted to remain as pupil who has contracted vicious habits or who disregards its rules. Its 20th session)
Jefferson Academy, 43 Bourbon Street
University High School for boys, Eagle Hall, Prytania St. (second session)
St. Simeon's Select School, 131 Annunciation Street (conducted by the Sisters of Charity)
The Academy of the Hebrew Educational Society, for both sexes, Calliope Street between St. Charles and Prytania
St. Stanislaus Commercial College, Bay St. Louis MS (The twenty-first session of this well-known Institution)
Trinity High School for Boys, Pass Christian MS. ($300 per session.)

A note in the New Orleans Times on March 29, 1876, mentions a competition between Aloysius and another school that was apparently quite heated.

The City School Board conducted Marshall School at Girod and Julia Streets.

The announcement for the opening of school October 2, 1876, contains more information about the academy.

A yellow fever epidemic hit New Orleans in the spring of 1878. Refugees from Cuba's unsuccessful war of independence from Spain brought the disease to the city. One-fifth of the city's population left, leaving streets and businesses barren. By August 10, 118 had died. As a result, Aloysius didn't open until November 11.

The school's mission was expressed this way in its ads:

The principal aim of this institution is to enable pupils to acquire a sound moral and Christian training, and to prepare them in a particular manner for the business of a commercial life.