Ouachita Parish School Board is a

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headquartered in Monroe,

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. The district serves

Ouachita Parish Ouachita Parish (French: ''Paroisse d'Ouachita'') is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,368. The parish seat is Monroe. The parish was formed in 1807. Ouachita Parish i ...

except for areas within the City of Monroe; those areas are instead served by the Monroe City School System. Neal Lane "Lanny" Johnson, 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

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in the 1979

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. Dan Richey, then of Ferriday, won the seat after Johnson, a

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, was eliminated in the primary. One of the former members of the Ouachita Parish School Board was the Monroe native

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, a comic book artist and writer. Still another former member is

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, a state representative from House District 15 in West Monroe from 1988 to 1996. Since 2015, the Board owns the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe. In July 2022 the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Dallas Office, has begun an investigation into Ouachita Parish Schools for racial discrimination, disability discrimination, and retaliation.

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 Schoolbr>
(''Unincorporated area'') * Richwood High School (Louisiana), Richwood High Schoolbr>
(''Unincorporated area'') *

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( West Monroe) * West Ouachita High Schoolbr>
(''Unincorporated area'') * Sterlington High School

References

External links

Ouachita Parish School Board
{{coord missing, Louisiana Education in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana School districts in Louisiana