Beauregard Parish School Board is a

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headquartered in DeRidder in

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in southwestern

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. From 1933 to 1944,

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, then of DeRidder, was the school board president. In 1943, he was elected the president of the Louisiana School Board Association. He left the board to serve from 1944 to 1956 in the

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. A strong advocate of public education, Hennigan worked to make

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in Lake Charles a four-year college and to pass legislation creating the state teacher retirement system. He died at the age of seventy-seven in 1960 in

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. From 1969 to 1992, Dorothy Sue Hill, the

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for

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, Beauregard, and Calcasieu parishes, taught

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for Beauregard Parish schools. Her husband and legislative predecessor, Herman Ray Hill, was a teacher and

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for the school district.

Schools

PK-12 schools

Merryville High School Merryville High School is a K-12 school located in the town of Merryville, Louisiana. It is part of the Beauregard Parish School Board district and is one of 14 schools in Beauregard Parish. Donnie Love is the principal and Scott Carnes vice ...

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(''Unincorporated area'')

6-12 schools

* East Beauregard High Schoolbr>
(''Unincorporated area'') *

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High schools

DeRidder High School DeRidder High School is a public high school in the city of DeRidder, Louisiana, United States. The 9-12 school is a part of the Beauregard Parish School Board. School uniforms All students are required to wear school school uniforms. These con ...

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Junior high schools

DeRidder Junior High School
(DeRidder)

Elementary schools

PK-5

(''Unincorporated area'') * South Beauregard Elementary School (''Unincorporated area'') 4-5

(DeRidder) 2-3

(DeRidder) PK-1

(DeRidder)

References

External links

Beauregard Parish School Board
School districts in Louisiana Education in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-school-stub