re: Lost high schools of Louisiana

Graduated from Chataignier high. Now an elementary school and students attend Mamou or Ville Platte. Same with Vidrine. Bayou chicot is elementary and kids attend pine prairie. Seeing many names of small schools like Atlanta who I remember from basketball. They killed it in class C back in the 90’s.

andry-Walker Charging Bucs

Still open as LB Landry

Landry Memorial High School in Lake Charles should be added.

Larose-Cut Off + Galliano + Golden Meadow= South Lafourche High School

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High schools that still exist under a different name (i.e. Chapel Trafton, Farmerville, Lake Providence) are not listed.

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Does Robert E. Lee count as a name change?

Legit question since technically it was torn down and rebuilt as Liberty on the same site. Maybe that one could go either way.

I HAVE A collinston cougars booster plate

Martin Red Devils is not on the list. Small school in Red River Parish that probably had about 200 students K-12 when the parish consolidated the schools and closed it around 2002.

Coushatta Choctaws (not on the list) and Hall Summit Hornets (on the list) were other that closed after that consolidation. Drove by Hall Summit recently. Buildings still there, but almost invisible from the road due to trees growing in the area.

Others closed in that area include Hanna Elementary, Grand Bayou High School, and East Point High School. Those were black schools before deseg. Hanna became a desegregated (but 95% black) elementary school for a time.

All black East Point became Riverdale Academy, a private school that opened after desegregation and still has Rebels as the mascot.

Not listed in Lake Chuck are....

Sacred Heart
St. Charles Academy
Landry Memorial

All three combined to form St. Louis, later renamed to St. Louis Catholic.

Sacred Heart didn't have enough students to stay open.

St. Charles Academy (the first high school in Calcasieu Parish) had its building condemned

Landry had room and a fairly new school building easily renovated and added onto.

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Greensburg

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My Alma mater (1985). Consolidated over the Christmas holidays in 1988. My younger brother was a senior at the time. Greensburg was ~75/25 white at the time of consolidation. There was so much white flight after that my brother and one or two more ended up being the only whites in that graduating class. We were too poor to run away to a private school.

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Ok, here are the high schools that were victims of consolidation. Some of these high schools are still open today but are used as middle and elementary schools.

Let me know if schools need to be added.

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Greensburg + St. Helena + Woodland = St. Helena Central (now St. Helena College and Careers Academy ).

Cottonport on your list of closures did close but it was a casualty of consolidation.
Bunkie + Hessmer + Cottonport = Bunkie

There were some smaller schools in Avoyelles that merged with Marksville High as well.