Beauregard Parish School Board is a
school district headquartered in
DeRidder in
Beauregard Parish
Beauregard Parish (french: Paroisse de Beauregard) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,654. The parish seat is DeRidder. The parish was formed on January 1, 1913.
Beauregard Parish ...
in southwestern
Louisiana,
United States.
From 1933 to 1944,
Gilbert Franklin Hennigan
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Backgrou ...
, 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
Louisiana State Senate
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. A strong advocate of public education, Hennigan worked to make
McNeese State University 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
Calcasieu Parish
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.
From 1969 to 1992, Dorothy Sue Hill, the
state representative
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for
Allen Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to:
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* Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas
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, Beauregard, and Calcasieu parishes, taught
home economics for Beauregard Parish schools. Her husband and legislative predecessor,
Herman Ray Hill
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, was a teacher and
coach
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* Co ...
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 p ...
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(''Unincorporated area'')
*
Singer High School
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(''Unincorporated area'')
6-12 schools
*
East Beauregard High School
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(''Unincorporated area'')
*
South Beauregard High School
South Beauregard High School is a middle and high school in Longville, Louisiana
Longville is a census-designated place in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
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(''Unincorporated area'')
High schools
*
DeRidder High Schoolbr>
(
DeRidder)
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
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