Central Lafourche High School


Central Lafourche High School is a public high school serving students in grades 9 through 12 in Mathews, unincorporated Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, about southwest of New Orleans. The school, which has a Raceland postal address, is one of three high schools in the Lafourche Parish Public Schools district.
It serves the communities of: Mathews, Raceland, Lockport, Lockport Heights, and Gheens as well as the Lafourche Parish section of Des Allemands.
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History

The school is a consolidation of the former Raceland High School and Lockport High School. It was established by the Lafourche Parish School Board in 1965 as a three-year, co-educational senior high school. It was built at a cost of almost $4,000,000. The school became a reality with the 1966-1967 school session. Until the building was completed, the school was housed in temporary facilities on the campus of the former Lockport High School. The ninth grade and Pre G.E.D./Skills Option Programs were added to the Central Lafourche Curriculum in the 2001-2002 school year.
In 1968 the high school for black students, C.M. Washington High School, was dissolved due to racial integration. Therefore black students now attended the previously all-white school.
Between 2015 and 2016, according to the Louisiana State Department of Education rankings, this school's rank increased from a "B" to an "A".

Athletics

Central Lafourche High athletics competes in the LHSAA.
The school competes interscholastically in several sports, including:
  • The Trojan Lancer Marching Band
  • Dance Team
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Bowling
  • Varsity cheer
  • Junior varsity cheer
  • Cross country
  • Fishing
  • Golf
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Track and field
  • Volleyball

Notable alumni