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Calcasieu Parish Public School System
The Calcasieu Parish School Board (CPSB) is a school district based in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. The CPSB operates all public schools in Calcasieu Parish, including the city of Lake Charles. Demographics *Total students (at October 1, 2014): 32,271 *Race/ethnicity **White: 61.1% **African American: 34.7% **Native American: 0.4% **Hispanic: 2.4% **Asian: 1.3% **Pacific Islander: 0.1% School uniform All CPSB students must wear school uniforms. Schools K-12 schools * Bell City High School (Louisiana), Bell City High School (''Unincorporated area'') * Starks High School (''Unincorporated area'') High schools Zoned * Alfred M. Barbe High School, A. M. Barbe High School (Lake Charles) * DeQuincy High School (DeQuincy, Louisiana, DeQuincy) * Sam Houston High School (Louisiana), Sam Houston High School (''Unincorporated area'') * LaGrange High School (Louisiana), LaGrange High School (Lake Charles) * Sulphur High School (Louisiana), Sulphur High School (Sulphur, Louisia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Lake Charles's population was 84,872. The city and metropolitan area of Lake Charles is considered a regionally significant center of petrochemical refining, gambling, tourism, and education, being home to McNeese State University and Sowela Technical Community College. Because of the lakes and waterways throughout the city, metropolitan Lake Charles is often called ''the Lake Area''. History On March 7, 1861, Lake Charles was incorporated as the town of Charleston, Louisiana. Lake Charles was founded by merchant and tradesman Marco Eliche (or Marco de Élitxe) as an outpost. He was a Sephardic Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulphur High School (Louisiana)
Sulphur High School is a 5A public high school located in Sulphur, Louisiana, United States. It is a part of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. The students are offered a variety of Advanced Placement courses as well as opportunities for dual enrollment in classes at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Principal for the main campus is David Pool. The school has a Ninth Grade Campus which opened its doors in the 2004–2005 school year, and its principal is Katherine Clophus. Athletics Sulphur High athletics competes in the LHSAA. Championships Football championships (4) State Championships: 1943, 1944, 1946, 1965 Notable alumni * J. T. Chargois, baseball player * Marcus R. Clark (Class of 1974), justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court * Casey Daigle, baseball player *Janice Lynde, actress, original cast member of the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' for three years, then went on to ABC's ''One Life to Live'' and NBC's '' Another World'' *Pat Rapp, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa, Louisiana
Iowa () is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,436 in 2020. It is part of the Lake Charles, Louisiana, Lake Charles Lake Charles metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area. History The history of this region is filled with stories of the early Midwestern settlers from Kansas, Illinois and Iowa, of the Acadians (Cajuns), and of Jean Lafitte's pirates. The community of Iowa was developed in the mid-19th century. The railroad that cut through this country brought settlers who were lured to the prairie land for rice farming, cattle raising and later oil fields. Much of southwest Louisiana was developed by the North American Land and Timber Co. Seaman A. Knapp, president of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, was engaged in 1885 to demonstrate the suitability of the region for rice production. Knapp attracted a number of Iowans to settle the area. The settlers were lured to this area by advertisements publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa High School
Iowa High School is a junior and senior high school (grades 6–12) in Iowa, Louisiana. It is a part of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. History One of the earliest schools in the Iowa area was located on the LeBleu family farm near the Chloe community in the mid-1880s,around the time Seaman A. Knapp, president of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, was working to demonstrate the suitability of the region for rice production.The modern Iowa High School was founded in 1919, and the first modern, brick school building in Iowa was constructed in 1920.To accomplish this, the Calcasieu Parish School Board in December 1919 sold $15,000 in bonds to The Hanchett Bond Company of Chicago. Athletics The Iowa Yellow Jackets compete in Class 3A of the LHSAA. In April 1965, the city's Lions Club proposed a resolution to the school board to dedicate the IHS football stadium to Jesse Edwin Cady, a longtime school board member who represented the area and who had died the previous month. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington-Marion Magnet High School
Washington-Marion Magnet High School is a magnet high school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. It is a part of the Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. it has 699 students and 90% of the staff is certified. Athletics Washington-Marion Magnet High athletics competes in the LHSAA. Notable alumni * Vincent Brisby (1989), professional football player, primarily for the New England Patriots * Josh Gray (basketball) (2011), professional basketball player for the Northern Arizona Suns (attended, transferred before graduation) *Eddie Kennison (1992), professional football player, primarily for the Kansas City Chiefs *Nate Livings (2000), professional football player for the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys *Brandon Winey (1996), professional football player for the Washington Redskins and New York Giants *Mark Vital (2012),Professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westlake, Louisiana
Westlake is an industrial city in Calcasieu Parish, in western Louisiana, United States, and is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area. The population was 4,781 in 2020. Westlake was incorporated in 1945. There are many chemical plants and oil refineries situated around the Westlake area. Geography Westlake is located in east-central Calcasieu Parish at (30.248455, -93.259047), on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, just north of that river's entry into the water body of Lake Charles. The city of Lake Charles borders Westlake across the river, connected via the Interstate 10 bridge. According to the United States Census Bureau, Westlake has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.49%, is water. Moss Bluff is just to the northeast. Sulphur is to the west, after the small community of Mossville. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 4,781 people, 1,935 households, and 1,178 families residing in the city. Government We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westlake High School (Louisiana)
Westlake High School is a high school in Westlake, Louisiana. It is a part of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools and was established in 1914. History Until Westlake High's founding in 1914, Westlake students attended Lake Charles High School. Mr. S.P. Arnett organized the establishment of a high school building on Sulphur Avenue. The building was made of red bricks painted yellow, and became known as the "yellow brick building". An auditorium/gymnasium, called the "red brick building," opened in 1936. The first yearbook, "Big Horn," was printed in 1946. That year, homecoming and American football were established. A new high school building was added to the Sulphur Avenue campus in 1949. The high school moved to its current campus on Garden Drive in January 1967, and the Sulphur Avenue campus became known as S.P. Arnett Junior High School (now S.P. Arnett Middle School). The current Garden Drive building initially had 16 classrooms in of space; additional classrooms were installed l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinton, Louisiana
Vinton is a town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,400 in 2020. It is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area. History The Old Spanish Trail, which was neither old nor Spanish, wandered north and south of what is now U.S. Highway 90, in large part because of the unstable roadbed. The chief means of outside travel in the parish relied on riverboats plying the Sabine and Calcasieu rivers. Much of the marsh and bayous remained impassable. River travel made Lake Charles possible, just as mining for sulfur led to the founding of Sulphur. Settlers had long been in the Vinton area. Jean Baptise Granger settled acreage between what is now Vinton and Big Woods about 1827, one of the first pioneers of the area. Even so, the area remained sparsely populated. The area had few settlers because France, New Spain, and Mexico disputed the western boundary of Louisiana for many years. When the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, the dispu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinton High School
Vinton High School is a Title I public high school located in the city of Vinton, Louisiana. It is a part of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. The school colors are red and blue, and the Principal is Eric Heinen. The school had an enrollment of 296 for the 2020-21 school year. Students are offered dual enrollment at Sulphur High School to take Advanced Placement courses. Athletics Vinton High athletics competes in the LHSAA. The current athletic director of the school is Mitch Manuel. The following sports teams are offered to Vinton High School students: *Baseball ( varsity, junior varsity, freshman) *Softball (varsity, junior varsity) *Boys basketball (varsity, junior varsity) *Girls basketball (varsity, junior varsity) *Gridiron football (varsity, junior varsity) *Volleyball (varsity) *Boys soccer (varsity) *Girls soccer (varsity) *Boys track and field (varsity) *Girls track and field (varsity) *Boys wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulphur, Louisiana
Sulphur (french: Soufre) is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. The population was 21,809 in 2020. Sulphur is part of the Lake Charles, Louisiana, Lake Charles Lake Charles metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area. History Sulphur is named for the sulfur mines that were operated in the area in the 1900s. In 1867, Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, an experienced geologist who was prospecting for oil and other minerals, conducted exploratory borings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and discovered sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome. However, the sulfur was beneath several hundred feet of muck and quicksand containing deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, which made mining extremely hazardous. Repeated unsuccessful attempts to sink conventional mining shafts in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the loss of many lives. In 1890, the German immigrant Herman Frasch invented and patented the Frasch Process of mining sulfur, using concentric pipes to pump superheated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaGrange High School (Louisiana)
LaGrange High School is a public high school in Lake Charles in southwestern Louisiana, United States. It is operated by the Calcasieu Parish School Board. Athletics LaGrange High athletics competes in the LHSAA. Championships Football Championships *(1) State Championship: 1938 Notable alumni * Marcus Anderson (1977), professional football player for the Chicago Bears * Don Breaux (1958), professional football player for the Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers * John Demarie (1963), professional football player for the Cleveland Browns * Terry Fontenot (1999), NFL scout and college football player * Ray Fontenot (1975), professional baseball player for the (New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and Minnesota Twins) * Randy Roach (1969), mayor of Lake Charles from 2000 to 2017, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 to 1986 * Jerry Wilson (defensive back) (1991), professional football player for primarily the Miami Dolphins and San Diego Chargers The San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
