Sorrento is a town in

Ascension Parish Ascension Parish (; ) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 126,500. Its parish seat is Donaldsonville. The parish was created in 1807. Ascension Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metr ...

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, United States. The population was 1,514 in 2020. It is part of the

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metropolitan statistical area.

Geography

Sorrento is located at (30.180229, -90.866138). According to the

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, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.1 km), all land.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,514 people, 634 households, and 417 families residing in the town.

Education and media

Sorrento Primary School (K-5) Sorrento is home to

River Parishes Community College River Parishes Community College is a public community college in Gonzales, Louisiana. It was previously located in Sorrento, Louisiana but was moved to Gonzales in 2014 with the construction of a new campus in the Edenborne Development. In Augu ...

, established in 1998. The official journal for the Town of Sorrento is '' The Gonzales Weekly Citizen''.

Notable people

Clay Schexnayder Clay John Schexnayder (; born February 25, 1969) is an American businessman and politician from Ascension Parish, Louisiana. A Republican, he has served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2012 to 2024, and as speaker of t ...

, member of the

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from Ascension Parish, owns an automotive repair business in Sorrento. *

John "Hot Rod" Williams John "Hot Rod" Williams (August 9, 1962 – December 11, 2015) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1986 to 1999. Early life Williams was born in Sorrento, Louisiana, a small town ne ...

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player * Toe Nash, retired

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player

References

External links

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About Us – History of the College page for River Parishes Community College
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