Jonesboro-Hodge High School is a high school located in Jonesboro in

Jackson Parish, Louisiana Jackson Parish (French: ''Paroisse de Jackson'') is a parish in the northern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,031. The parish seat is Jonesboro. The parish was formed in 1845 from parts of Clai ...

. The school mascot is the Tiger, named after LSU. The colors are scarlet and royal blue. The school, a part of the Jackson Parish School Board, serves the Town of Jonesboro and the Village of Hodge.

History

The first school house in Jonesboro, comprising 11 grades, was located at the corner of 3rd and Cooper. The brick building completed in 1913 was destroyed by fire in 1925. The new J-HHS building was constructed during the most economically depressed era of American History. The architectural beauty of the structure soon came to symbolize Jonesboro-Hodge High School. The school named its football stadium "Caldwell Peacock" in honor of Neil Caldwell (a former athletic director and head football coach at the school who died in the U.S. Army Air Corps) and Gordon Peacock (a member of the football team who died of pneumonia).

Faculty

The school faculty is made up of approximately 38 teachers who instruct in a wide array of disciplines. Courses include: Agricultural Science, Auto Mechanics, Nursing, Mathematics, Science, English, Spanish, Computer Science, Publications, Health & Physical Education, Social Studies, Gifted Music, and Choir.

School uniforms

The students are required to wear school uniforms with the choice of jeans and spirit shirts or jeans and regular uniform shirts.

Athletics

Jonesboro-Hodge High is a Class 2A member of the LHSAA and competes in District 2. Jonesboro-Hodge High School has a wide array of sports, including

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baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

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, golf, and

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

(Tiger Paw Dance Line).

State Championships

*(5) Football championships: 1930, 1945, 1987, 1988, 1989

Notable alumni

Rodney Alexander Rodney McKinnie Alexander (born December 5, 1946) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs from September 30, 2013, until June 3, 2014. Previously he ...

, Class of 1964, former

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Marty Booker Marty Montez Booker (born July 31, 1976) is a former American football wide receiver who played for eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Louisiana-Monroe, he was drafted by the Chicago Bear ...

, Class of 1994, NFL football player *

Randy Ewing Randy is a given name, popular in the United States and Canada. It is primarily a masculine name. It was originally derived from the names Randall (given name), Randall, Randolf (given name), Randolf, Randolph (given name), Randolph, as well as ...

, Class of 1962, former Louisiana State Senate President * John Garlington, Class of 1964, NFL football player *

Randy Moffett Micheal Randolph Moffett, known as Randy Moffett (born January 10, 1947), is a former president of the University of Louisiana System. He was appointed to the position on July 25, 2008. He retired on the last day of 2012 and was succeeded on the fir ...

, Class of 1965, President of the University of Louisiana System

References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Louisiana Educational institutions established in 1913 Schools in Jackson Parish, Louisiana 1913 establishments in Louisiana