Calcasieu Parish Public Schools

Calcasieu Parish School System
Type and location
Type	Public School District
Grades	K-12
Region	Calcasieu Parish
Country	United States
Location	3310 Broad Street Lake Charles, Louisiana 70615 337-217-4000
District Info
Superintendent	Wayne Savoy
Budget	$271 million (2009)
Students and staff
Students	32,651
Other information
Website	http://www.cpsb.org/

Calcasieu Parish School Board is a school district based in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. The CPSB operates all public schools in Calcasieu Parish, including the city of Lake Charles.

Demographics

• Total Students (as of October 1, 2007): 32,837^[1]

• Gender^[1]
  • Male: 51%
  • Female: 49%

• Race/Ethnicity^[1]
  • White: 61.36%
  • African American: 36.00%
  • Native American: 0.20%
  • Hispanic: 1.57%
  • Asian: 0.88%

• Socio-Economic Indicators^[1]
  • At-Risk: 55.29%
  • Free Lunch: 45.83%
  • Reduced Lunch: 9.46%

School uniform

All CPSB students must wear school uniforms.^[2]

Schools

Adult schools

• Adult and Continuing Education (Lake Charles)

K-12 schools

• Bell City High School (Unincorporated area)
• Starks High School (Unincorporated area)

High schools

Zoned

• A. M. Barbe High School (Lake Charles)
• DeQuincy High School (DeQuincy)
• Sam Houston High School (Unincorporated area)
• Iowa High School (Iowa)
• LaGrange High School (Lake Charles)
• Sulphur High School (Sulphur)
  • Sulphur High 9th Grade Campus (Opened 2004)
• Vinton High School (Vinton)
• Westlake High School (Westlake)
• Washington-Marion Magnet High School (Lake Charles)

Alternative

• Calcasieu Career Center (Lake Charles)
• College Street Vocational Center/Westlake T&I (Lake Charles)

PreK-8 schools

• Maplewood Middle School (Sulphur)

K-8 schools

• J. I. Watson Middle School (Iowa)
• Maplewood Middle School

6-8 Middle schools

• S. P. Arnett Middle School (Westlake)
• DeQuincy Middle School (DeQuincy)
• LeBlanc Middle School (Sulphur)
  • Housed inside is the Jake Drost Special School which serves special needs children in areas of the parish west of the Calcasieu River.^[3]
• W. W. Lewis Middle School (Sulphur)
• Ray D. Molo Middle School (Lake Charles)
• Moss Bluff Middle School (Unincorporated area)
• Oak Park Middle School (Lake Charles)
• Reynaud Middle School (Lake Charles)
• Vinton Middle School (Vinton)
• S. J. Welsh Middle School (Lake Charles)
• Forrest K. White Middle School (Lake Charles)

Elementary schools

Zoned

• Barbe Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Brentwood Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• J. D. Clifton Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• College Oaks Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Combre-Fondel Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• T. S. Cooley Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• DeQuincy Elementary School (DeQuincy)
• Dolby Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Fairview Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• Frasch Elementary School (Sulphur)
• Gillis Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• W. T. Henning Elementary School (Sulphur)
• Henry Heights Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• J. J. Johnson, II Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• M. J. Kaufman Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• John F. Kennedy Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• E. K. Key Elementary School (Sulphur)
• LeBleu Settlement Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• Moss Bluff Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• Nelson Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Oak Park Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• D. S. Perkins Elementary School (Sulphur)
• Prien Lake Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• St. John Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• Vincent Settlement Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
• R. W. Vincent Elementary School (Sulphur)
• Vinton Elementary School (Vinton)
• T. H. Watkins Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Pearl Watson Elementary School (Lake Charles)
• Western Heights Elementary School (Westlake)
• Westwood Elementary School (Westlake)
• Ralph Wilson Elementary School (Lake Charles)

Other schools

• Lake Charles-Boston Academy of Learning (Lake Charles)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Multiple Statistics For Total Reported Public School Students - October 2007". Louisiana Department of Education. 2007-10-01. http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/11701.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-15. 
2. ^ "Dress Code Effective 2001." Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.
3. ^ "Jake Drost Special School." LeBlanc Middle School. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.

External links

• Calcasieu Parish Public Schools