E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
As next-friend of her minor daughter “S.W.”, Barbara Wyatt brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against high school softball coaches Rhonda Fletcher and Cassandra Newell. Wyatt alleges the coaches disclosed S.W.’s sexual orientation during a disciplinary meeting with S.W.’s mother, primarily claiming the disclosure to the mother constituted a Fourteenth Amendment invasion of S.W.’s privacy. Wyatt also alleged a Fourth Amendment claim based on a disciplinary confrontation in a locked locker room. On the coaches’ motion for summary judgment, the district court denied qualified immunity to Fletcher and Newell on the ground that genuine issues of material fact were disputed. We disagree and reverse. We hold that there is no clearly established law holding that a student in a public secondary school has a privacy right under the Fourteenth Amendment that precludes school officials from discussing with a parent the student’s private matters, including matters relating to sexual activity of the student. We further hold that such students have no clearly established Fourth Amendment right that bars a student-coach confrontation in a closed and locked room. We thus conclude that these individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity that bars the federal claims against them, and, consequently, we REVERSE and VACATE in part and REMAND for entry of judgment dismissing the federal claims against these individual defendants.
I.
The first matter we must deal with in this qualified immunity case is the basis of our jurisdiction. On this interlocutory appeal, we have before us the district court’s denial of the coaches’ motion for summary judgment asserting the claim of qualified immunity. Our review is de novo. Flores v. City of Palacios, 381 F.3d 391, 394 (5th Cir.2004). Although a denial of a defendant’s motion for summary judgment is not ordinarily immediately appeal-able, such a denial based on qualified immunity is a collateral order capable of immediate review. Brown v. Strain, 663 F.3d 245, 248 (5th Cir.2011) (inset quotation marks omitted). We have jurisdiction over such an order, however, only “to the extent that the district court’s order turns on an issue of law,” Kovacic v. Villarreal, 628 F.3d 209, 211 (5th Cir.2010); if it turns on a disputed material fact, we lack jurisdiction. Thus, if we decide that the district court erred in assessing the legal significance of the conduct that the district court considered, we then decide whether the factual disputes are material to deciding the legal issue presented in the summary judgment. See Kinney v. Weaver, [500]*500367 F.3d 337, 348 (5th Cir.2004) (en banc); Wagner v. Bay City, 227 F.3d 316, 320 (5th Cir.2000). If there are no such material factual disputes, we can then rule on the claim for qualified immunity.
Ms. Wyatt (‘Wyatt”), in her complaint, has made various claims, but in this interlocutory appeal, we only have appellate jurisdiction over the federal claims against the individual defendants Rhonda Fletcher (“Fletcher”) and Cassandra Newell (“New-ell”).1 Wyatt alleged in her complaint that the coaches’ conduct violated her daughter’s constitutional right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment and her right to be free from unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. As we will see, to decide the overarching question of whether the district court erred in denying the coaches qualified immunity, we ask whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, which Wyatt claims were violated, are “clearly established.” See Jones v. City of Jackson, 203 F.3d 875, 879 (5th Cir.2000) (quoting Siegert v. Gilley, 500 U.S. 226, 231, 111 S.Ct. 1789, 114 L.Ed.2d 277 (1991)). If they are not, the appellants are entitled to qualified immunity, and the district court’s denial of summary judgment on the federal claims was error.2
II.
A.
The dispute arose in the East Texas town of Kilgore. On March 3, 2009, S.W., a student at Kilgore High School (“KHS”), attended a meeting of the varsity softball team on which she played. The meeting was held at an off-campus playing field where practices regularly took place. In her complaint, Wyatt alleges that, upon S.W.’s arrival at the meeting, S.W.’s softball coaches Fletcher and Newell dismissed the rest of the team and led S.W. into a nearby locker room, locked the door, and questioned her about an alleged relationship with an older young woman named Hillary Nutt (“Nutt”). Wyatt said that the coaches then yelled at S.W., falsely accused her of spreading rumors regarding one of the coaches’ sexual orientation,3 and threatened to tell S.W.’s mother that her daughter was in a sexual relationship with another woman.4 In her com[501]*501plaint, Wyatt made a further allegation: that, at the locker room meeting, “Fletcher asked SW. if she was gay.” In her deposition, however, S.W.’s story changed: she said definitively that the coaches did not ask, point blank, whether she was a lesbian. Besides this inconsistency, there is one more worthy of note: in her complaint, Wyatt states, “At the time of Fletcher and Newell’s confrontation, S.W. was dating [Nutt].” But in her appellate brief, she says “in fact, [S.W.] and Hillary [Nutt] hadn’t dated” and “weren’t in a relationship.”
Following the meeting with S.W., the coaches called Wyatt, S.W.’s mother, and requested they meet.5 The parties’ characterizations of events differ. In her complaint, Wyatt alleges that Fletcher revealed S.W.’s sexual orientation to her mother at this second meeting and that Newell then offered Wyatt the contact information for Nutt. As with the locker room meeting, however, there are inconsistencies in Wyatt’s story. Wyatt’s allegation in her complaint was that, at the second meeting, the coaches “outed” her daughter: “Fletcher said [to Wyatt that] S.W. was a lesbian.” Wyatt apparently withdrew this allegation when, at her deposition, she testified under oath that Coach Fletcher in fact never used the word “gay” or “lesbian.” The claim involving the revelation of S.W.’s sexual orientation has become ever more nuanced over the course of the briefing on this appeal: Instead of alleging that the coaches divulged, point-blank, her daughter’s homosexuality, Wyatt’s claim is now that she inferred S.W.’s sexual orientation from the coaches’ comments.6 In response, the coaches argue that they were obliged to contact S.W.’s mother because rumors regarding S.W.’s relationship with Nutt were causing dissension on the team, Nutt was a potentially dangerous and underage user of illegal drugs and alcohol, and any possible sexual relationship between Nutt and S.W. was a valid concern. See Tex. Penal Code § 22.011(a)(2).7
B.
Wyatt filed three separate grievances with Kilgore Independent School District (“KISD”) alleging the coaches acted inappropriately by disclosing S.W.’s sexual orientation to her mother; all were subsequently dismissed.8 Then, on December [502]*50210, 2010, Wyatt, as next-friend of her minor daughter SW., filed a complaint in federal court against KISD, and, in their personal capacities, against KHS assistant athletic director Douglas Duke,9 Fletcher, and Newell, for violating SW.’s federal rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and state privacy rights under the Texas Constitution. In their answer, Defendants pleaded the affirmative defense of Texas official immunity for KISD on the state claims and qualified immunity for Fletcher and Newell on the federal claims. The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge, and the coaches moved for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. The magistrate judge rejected the defense of qualified immunity and consequently denied the coaches’ motion for summary judgment. The magistrate judge cited “multiple unresolved questions of fact.” With regard to Wyatt’s Fourth Amendment claim of unlawful seizure, the court said “there remains a genuine material issue of fact as to whether there was an objectively reasonable basis for the coaches’ actions including factual disputes over what transpired behind the closed doors of the locker room.” With regard to the Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy claim, the magistrate judge held that S.W.’s right to privacy in her sexual orientation was clearly established, and summary judgment was premature due to unresolved questions of fact — such as “whether the Coaehes[ ] disclosed S.W.’s sexual orientation as retaliation for S.W.’s conduct, whether they disclosed the identity of Ms. Nutt [to Ms. Wyatt] without provocation by Ms. Wyatt, and the words they used to describe the relationship ... ” — all of which related to the reasonableness of their conduct.
As we have said, we lack appellate jurisdiction in this interlocutory appeal to determine whether a genuine factual issue exists; however, we do have jurisdiction to review the materiality of disputed facts as well as the district court’s legal analysis as it pertains to qualified immunity. See Wagner, 227 F.3d at 320; see also Kinney, 367 F.3d at 358. As we will see, the magistrate judge erred in analyzing the materiality of disputed facts because, even taking the facts in the light most favorable to Wyatt, Wyatt has not alleged violations of clearly established Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Consequently, we have appellate jurisdiction over this interlocutory appeal.
III.
Our review of the magistrate judge’s legal analysis begins with setting out the standard for qualified immunity. As we have indicated in many prior cases, evaluating qualified immunity is a two-step process, and the burden is on the plaintiff to prove that a government official is not entitled to qualified immunity. Michalik v. Hermann, 422 F.3d 252, 258 (5th Cir. 2005). First, we determine whether the plaintiff has alleged a violation of a clearly established constitutional or statutory right. See Jones, 203 F.3d at 879. A right is clearly established only if its contours are “sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.” Wooley v. City of Baton Rouge, 211 F.3d 913, 919 (5th Cir.2000) (inset quotation marks omitted). The applicable law that binds the conduct of officeholders must be clearly established at the time the allegedly ac[503]*503tionable conduct occurs. Id. (inset quotation marks omitted). If the first step is met (i.e. the official’s conduct violates an established right), the second step is to determine whether the defendant’s conduct was objectively reasonable.10 Jones, 203 F.3d at 879 (inset quotation marks omitted). Both steps in the qualified immunity analysis are questions of law. Wooley, 211 F.3d at 919.
Under the Fifth Circuit standard, the doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials from civil damages liability when they reasonably could have believed that their conduct was not barred by law, and immunity is not denied unless existing precedent places the constitutional question beyond debate. Morgan v. Swanson, 659 F.3d 359, 370-71 (5th Cir.2011) (en banc). “Qualified immunity balances two important interests — the need to hold public officials accountable when they exercise power irresponsibly and the need to shield officials from harassment, distraction and liability when they perform their duties reasonably.” Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223, 231, 129 S.Ct. 808, 172 L.Ed.2d 565 (2009). The law generally disfavors expansive civil liability for actions taken while state officials are on duty because such liability “can entail substantial social costs, including the risk that fear of personal monetary liability and harassing litigation will unduly inhibit officials in the discharge of their duties.” Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 638, 107 S.Ct. 3034, 97 L.Ed.2d 523 (1987). In short, “[qualified immunity gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions.” Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, — U.S. -, 131 S.Ct. 2074, 2085, 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011).
When deciding whether the right allegedly violated was “clearly established,” the court asks whether the law so clearly and unambiguously prohibited the conduct that every reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates the law. Morgan, 659 F.3d at 371 (inset quotations omitted). Answering in the affirmative requires the court to be able to point to “controlling authority — or a robust consensus of persuasive authority — that defines the contours of the right in question with a high degree of particularity.” Id. at 371-72 (citations and inset quotations omitted). This requirement establishes a high bar. When there is no controlling authority specifically prohibiting a defendant’s conduct, the law is not clearly established for the purposes of defeating qualified immunity. See id. at 372. Acknowledging these clearly drawn bright lines as rigorous background principles of qualified immunity, we proceed to the merits of Wyatt’s privacy claim.
IV.
Wyatt’s assertions of federal liability have essentially morphed over the course of the litigation into one primary constitutional claim involving an alleged right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment. It is true that, originally, Wyatt alleged two basic claims. In her complaint, Wyatt alleged a Fourth Amendment violation, saying that the coaches’ decision to “lock the locker room door and order S.W. to remain inside while Defendants confronted and threatened her was a de facto seizure of S.W.’s person....” However, in her appellate brief and at oral [504]*504argument, Wyatt barely mentioned this seizure allegation. She cites no authorities establishing such a Fourth Amendment violation in school contexts, making practically no effort to show the right in question is “clearly established.” When before the district court on summary judgment, however, the district court held there was a genuine issue of material fact relating to her claim of “seizure” — whether there was an objectively reasonable basis for the coaches’ actions in the locker room, which, according to S.W., included shouting, intimidating gestures, and locked doors.11 In so doing, however, the court erred; there is no material disputed fact that prevented it from deciding the legal question. First, the district court overlooked case law that establishes that the Fourth Amendment applies differently in the school context and particularly with regard to student athletes in locker rooms. See Milligan v. City of Slidell, 226 F.3d 652, 654-55 (5th Cir.2000); see also Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646, 657, 115 S.Ct. 2386, 132 L.Ed.2d 564 (1995) (noting that “[pjublic school locker rooms ... are not notable for the [Fourth Amendment] privacy they afford” and “[b]y choosing to go out for the team, [student athletes] voluntarily subject themselves to a degree of regulation even higher than that imposed on students generally.”) (inset quotations omitted).12 Second, verbal abuse does not give rise to a constitutional violation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, so any yelling that may have occurred is not actionable. See Calhoun v. Hargrove, 312 F.3d 730, 734 (5th Cir.2002); see also Doe v. Gooden, 214 F.3d 952, 955 (8th Cir.2000) (holding that a teacher’s statements, while “demeaning” and “belittling” to his students, did not violate their constitutional rights); Walker-Serrano by Walker v. Leonard, 168 F.Supp.2d 332, 347 (M.D.Pa.2001) (stating “verbal abuse, whether coming from a student or a teacher, is not a constitutional violation.”). Thus, there is simply no clearly established constitutional right — and Wyatt cites none — that protects students from being privately questioned, even forcefully, even in a locked locker room.13 Thus Newell and Fletcher are entitled to qualified immunity on the Fourth Amendment claim.
We are left only with Wyatt’s Fourteenth Amendment claim relating to the coaches’ conversation with S.W’s mother. Under Wyatt’s theory, S.W. has a constitutional right to the confidentiality— even with respect to her mother — of her [505]*505own sexual orientation, which was breached by the coaches when they spoke to her about S.W.’s violations of team policy. In order to further understand the nature of Wyatt’s claim — and whether, for purposes of qualified immunity, the right purportedly violated is clearly established, we first briefly consider the modern-day origin and subsequent development of the constitutional right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment upon which Wyatt relies.
We begin with Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965). There, the Supreme Court declared that a state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples was unconstitutional because it violated the right to privacy, a right long last apparent from the penumbra of rights established by the Bill of Rights and applied to the States by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See id. at 485-86, 85 S.Ct. 1678. The decision can be said to have validated an earlier dissent by Justice Brandéis in Olmstead v. United States, which described the “right to be let alone” as the “most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man.” 277 U.S. 438, 478, 48 S.Ct. 564, 72 L.Ed. 944 (1928). In order to protect the right, Justice Brandéis wrote, in dissent, “every unjustifiable intrusion of the government upon the privacy of an individual ... must be deemed a [constitutional] violation....” Id.
Later, in Whalen v. Roe, the Supreme Court identified two separate interests that fall under the constitutional right to privacy. 429 U.S. 589, 599-600, 97 S.Ct. 869, 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977). The one of relevance to us is the “individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters” by the government. Id. at 599, 97 S.Ct. 869; see also Nixon v. Adm’r of Gen. Servs., 433 U.S. 425, 457, 97 S.Ct. 2777, 53 L.Ed.2d 867 (1977) (“One element of privacy has been characterized as ‘the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters-’ ”). This confidentiality interest has been defined as “the right to be free from the government disclosing private facts about its citizens.” Ramie v. City of Hedwig Village, Tex., 765 F.2d 490, 492 (5th Cir.1985).
Since Whalen and Nixon, however, the Supreme Court “has said little else on the subject of an individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters.” NASA v. Nelson, — U.S. -, 131 S.Ct. 746, 756, 178 L.Ed.2d 667 (2011) (noting that “no other decision has squarely addressed a constitutional right to informational privacy.”). Wyatt argues, however, that the Fifth Circuit has “addressed the contours” of her right to privacy and that the constitutional protection accorded to such a right “in this and other circuits is clear.” But, in so doing, she overstates the degree to which precedent supports her particular claim. The Fifth Circuit has never held that a person has a constitutionally-protected privacy interest in her sexual orientation, and it certainly has never suggested that such a privacy interest precludes school authorities from discussing with parents matters that relate to the interests of their children. Indeed, we have said, “There is no Fifth Circuit authority on what types of disclosures are personal enough to trigger the protection of the confidentiality branch.” Zaffuto v. City of Hammond, 308 F.3d 485, 490 (5th Cir.2002) (emphasis added). Therefore, when the magistrate judge in this case held that there is a constitutional right that bars the unauthorized disclosure by school coaches of a student’s sexual orien[506]*506tation to the student’s mother, he proclaimed a new rule of law.14
1.
And although Wyatt argues that the distinct contours of her asserted right were well-established, she can only cite two irrelevantly remote Fifth Circuit cases in an attempt to buttress her claim, Fadjo v. Coon, 633 F.2d 1172 (5th Cir.1981), and ACLU of Miss., Inc. v. Miss., 911 F.2d 1066 (5th Cir.1990), neither of which even touch on privacy rights between a student and a parent. The first, Fadjo v. Coon, concerned disclosure of an insurance beneficiary’s personal information in the context of a criminal investigation. 633 F.2d at 1174. Plaintiff Fadjo was the named beneficiary of life insurance policies insuring a man who mysteriously disappeared. Id. at 1174. After explicit assurances by the state attorney that his testimony would be absolutely privileged, Fadjo, as part of the criminal investigation, provided the state with information concerning “the most private details of his life.” Id. The state attorney then shared this information with insurance companies, resulting in personal misfortune to Fadjo, who was forced to move his residence and struggled to find meaningful employment. Id. Finding that Fadjo’s right to privacy had been violated by the disclosure, the court held that there was an actionable § 1983 claim under the confidentiality branch of the Fourteenth Amendment15 and that “no legitimate [507]*507state purpose existed sufficient to outweigh the invasion into Fadjo’s privacy.” Id. at 1175. Notably, the court never discussed the specific nature of the “private details of Fadjo’s life” that were disclosed (i.e. details private enough to warrant constitutional protection), and the court never suggested that sexual orientation might be one of them. Furthermore, the court stressed that Fadjo had been promised that the information he provided investigators would be confidential and that the plaintiffs allegation was that the state had not honored this pledge. Id. at 1176 (stating “Fadjo’s case is distinguishable ... since it involves the revelation of intimate information obtained under a pledge of confidentiality....”) (emphasis added). In Wyatt’s case, the coaches made no such promise to S.W.
Even to speculate that an established right to the non-disclosure of one’s sexual orientation exists does not help Wyatt’s case and still does not result in liability for the coaches. This is so because such speculation does not establish specifically that school officials are barred from communicating with parents regarding minor students’ behavior and welfare, when doing so might cause the parents to infer their child’s sexual orientation.
The second Fifth Circuit case Wyatt relies upon is American Civil Liberties Union of Miss., Inc. v. Mississippi, 911 F.2d at 1066. That case concerned the dismantling of a state agency whose purpose was to perpetuate racial segregation. Id. at 1068. After the agency had been shut down, the district court ordered that all agency files, including some containing sensitive, personal information of civil rights activists, be released to the general public. Id. This court reversed. We held that the public interest in full disclosure of the files was outweighed by the privacy concerns of the individuals whose information was obtained without permission.16 Id. at 1069. In the passage most relevant to the case at bar, the court said that plaintiffs “undeniably have an interest in restricting the disclosure of information” regarding “numerous instances of (often unsubstantiated) allegations of homosexuality, child molestation, illegitimate births, and sexual promiscuity....” Id. (emphasis added).
Importantly, ACLU of Miss, was an appeal of a district court’s granting of complete public disclosure of agency files and thus did not involve the qualified immunity framework fundamental to deciding this interlocutory appeal. The analysis in ACLU of Miss, also focused in part on [508]*508First Amendment concerns not relevant in S.W.’s case, saying that “to the extent that [the] information [in the agency files] is a matter of public concern, any public need to know could be satisfied by release of the information in a more limited format.” Id. at 1071. Although the public undoubtedly had an interest in obtaining information about the defunct, anti-civil rights agency, the public’s interest could not prevail over the plaintiffs’ right to privacy because the public interest could be addressed by this option of selective disclosure. The ACLU of Miss, court also emphasized that the personal information at issue was originally gathered by unconstitutional means (illegitimate searches and seizures by segregationist agency officials) pursuant to an unconstitutional purpose (suppressing speech of civil rights activists contrary in viewpoint to the agency), suggesting the court was further motivated by fairness concerns inherent in the public release of private information the government never had a right to possess in the first place. Id. at 1070.
Although the selective disclosure and fairness considerations in ACLU of Miss. are not analogous to the student-teacher-parent concerns in S.W.’s case, it is appropriate to point out that the “disclosure” here was only to the student’s mother; it was not discussed with other coaches, teachers, or students. Further, instead of bluntly declaring her daughter to be a homosexual, it is undisputed that the coaches mentioned to Wyatt only that S.W. was in a possibly inappropriate relationship with Nutt — thus narrowly tailoring the disclosure to the mother’s “need to know.” Second, unlike the facts in ACLU of Miss., the government here was not illegally and secretly collecting information in order to do harm to private citizens; disclosure of S.W.’s relationship was in the interest of the student and became necessary only after S.W., allegedly influenced by Nutt, violated team rules and policy, which were in place for the benefit and safety of students.
In summary, then, when we consider ACLU of Miss, and Fadjo, neither is established — much less dearly established— authority for the claims presented here. It is of major significance that neither occurred in the context of public schools’ relations with their students and the students’ parents. We therefore hold there is no controlling Fifth Circuit authority — certainly not with “sufficient particularity”— showing a clearly established Fourteenth Amendment privacy right that prohibits school officials from communicating to parents information regarding minor students’ interests, even when private matters of sex are involved. See Morgan, 659 F.3d at 372.
2.
Nor from outside the circuit do we find a “robust consensus of persuasive authority” that such a right was clearly established. Id. (emphasis added). In her attempt to draw help from outside friends, Wyatt calls on the Third Circuit. Sterling v. Borough of Minersville, she argues, stands for the proposition that there is a clearly established privacy right in one’s sexual orientation. 232 F.3d 190 (3d Cir.2000). There, a police officer discovered two male teenagers in a parked car at night and threatened to disclose to one of the teenager’s relatives the secret that the teenager was a homosexual. Id. at 192. The threat allegedly resulted in the teenager’s committing suicide. Id. In affirming an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds, the Third Circuit held that public disclosure by the government of a plaintiffs sexual orientation can give rise to a constitutional claim for the violation of privacy. Id. at 196. Because there [509]*509was a clearly established right to privacy in the Third Circuit, the defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity. Id. at 196-98.
The Sterling decision is notable in several respects. First, it is not controlling authority in this case and, thus, its reasoning, standing alone, is not dispositive for us today. Second, the deceased victim was not a minor, and the court noted this fact when it acknowledged that “because [plaintiff] was 18, there was no reason for [the officer] to interfere with [plaintiffs] family’s awareness of his sexual orientation.” Id. at 197-98 (emphasis added). This observation suggests that the Sterling court may have considered a situation involving a minor, differently. Third, although Sterling held that the law regarding the disclosure of one’s sexual orientation was “clearly established,” at least in the Third Circuit, in 1997, the court’s justifications for its doing so are dubious: cases from within the circuit that dealt with private medical and financial information and precedent from outside the circuit that was, at best, unclear on the issue. Id. at 195-96; cf., id. at 198, 199 n. 3 (Staple-ton, J., dissenting) (“[A] person’s right to privacy in his or her sexual orientation simply was not clearly established in April of 1997” because, for example, “[t]he Fourth Circuit’s decision in [Walls v. City of Petersburg, 895 F.2d 188, 193 (1990) ] addressed the issue squarely ... and reached the opposite conclusion.... ”). Since Sterling, the Supreme Court has repeatedly admonished courts to avoid finding “clearly established” law through such a loose method; looking to precedent that is, at best, inconclusive, and, at worst, irrelevant, as Sterling did, simply no longer suffices. See, e.g. Brosseau v. Haugen, 543 U.S. 194, 198-201, 125 S.Ct. 596, 160 L.Ed.2d 583 (2004) (holding that, when none of a “handful” of cases “squarely govern” the specific factual circumstances in a § 1983 suit, the cases do not clearly establish — in the mandatory “particularized sense” — a right that was violated).
In our case today, the trial court cited other cases from outside the circuit on its way to denying summary judgment to the coaches. Perhaps the most salient distinguishing factor in all these cases is that none occurred in a school context; together, they establish only the simple and unsurprising proposition that individuals generally can have a privacy interest in some personal “sexual matters,” a broad, general proposition with which we do not take issue.17 None of these cases approximate the factual context we have before us, and none of them provide any guidance regarding the crucial question: whether a student has" a privacy right under the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids school officials from discussing student [510]*510sexual information during meetings with parents.18
In sum, then, we hold that Wyatt has not alleged a clearly established constitutional right — drawn either from the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence, from our own precedent or from that of other circuits — that the coaches violated.19 The magistrate judge, therefore, erred in denying qualified immunity to each of the defendants on each of the federal claims.
V.
To summarize our opinion today: we hold that the magistrate judge erred in denying Newell and Fletcher summary judgment on the claims of qualified immunity. It was error because there is no Supreme Court or Fifth Circuit case that clearly establishes or even suggests that a high school student has a Fourth Amendment right that bars the student from being questioned by coaches in a locker room or a Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy that bars a teacher or coach from discussing the student’s private matters with the student’s parents. Fletcher and Newell were entitled to qualified immunity for this suit with respect to the federal claims, because, based on undisputed facts, there was no violation of a clearly established federal right. Jones, 203 F.3d at 879. For the above reasons, the judgment is reversed and vacated with respect to all federal claims against the individual defendants, and the case is remanded for entry of the appropriate judgment not inconsistent with this opinion.
REVERSED and VACATED in part, and REMANDED for entry of judgment.