Ouachita Parish School Board
Ouachita Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, United States.
The district serves Ouachita Parish except for areas within the City of Monroe; those areas are instead served by the Monroe City School System.
, the superintendent for the Franklin Parish School Board in Winnsboro is a former superintendent in Ouachita Parish. Johnson also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976-1980. He was defeated in a bid for the State Senate in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket primary. , then of Ferriday, won the seat after Johnson, a Democrat, was eliminated in the primary.
One of the former members of the Ouachita Parish School Board was the Monroe native Marc Swayze, a comic book artist and writer.[1] Still another former member is , a state representative from House District 15 in West Monroe from 1988 to 1996.[2]
Beginning in 2015, the OPSB will resume ownership of the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe. Board president Jerry Richard Hicks is also a member of the museum directors and will work with museum operator Nell Martien Calloway in needed fund-raising projects.[3]
Schools[]
PreK-K schools[]
- Crosley Elementary School (West Monroe)
PreK-2 schools[]
- Calhoun Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Swartz Lower Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
PreK-5 schools[]
- Boley Elementary School (West Monroe)
- Claiborne Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Drew Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Kiroli Elementary School (West Monroe)
- Lenwil Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Riser Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Woodlawn Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
PreK-6 schools[]
- Jack Hayes Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Lakeshore Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Robinson Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Shady Grove Elementary School (Monroe)
- Swayze Elementary School (Richwood)
PreK-8 schools[]
- Pinecrest Elementary/Middle School (Unincorporated area)
K-5 schools[]
- Highland Elementary School (West Monroe)
- George W. Welch Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Sterlington Elementary School
1-5 schools[]
- Riverbend Elementary School (West Monroe)
3-5 schools[]
- Central Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Swartz Upper Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
6-8 schools[]
- Calhoun Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- Good Hope Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- Riser Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- West Ridge Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- Woodlawn Junior High School (Unincorporated area)
- Ouachita Junior High School (Monroe)
- Sterlington Middle School
7-8 schools[]
- Richwood Junior High School (Unincorporated area)
9-12 schools[]
- Ouachita Parish High School [1] (Unincorporated area)
- Richwood High School [2] (Unincorporated area)
- West Monroe High School (West Monroe)
- West Ouachita High School [3] (Unincorporated area)
- Sterlington High School
References[]
- ^ "Marcus Desha Swayze". . Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ "Regular Session, 2004 House Resolution No. 77" (PDF). lanewsbureau.com. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
- ^ "Chennault Museum looks to go independent". . June 8, 2015. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
External links[]
- Education in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
- School districts in Louisiana