Iowa High School | |
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Address | |
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401 Miller Avenue , , 70647 United States | |
Coordinates | 30°14′43″N 93°01′01″W / 30.245316°N 93.016877°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | "Empowering all students to achieve" |
Established | 1919 [2] |
School district | Calcasieu Parish School Board |
Principal | Luke Dietz |
Staff | 56.99 (FTE) [1] |
Enrollment | 1,036 [1] (2022-23) |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.18 [1] |
Color(s) | Purple and gold |
Athletics conference | District 3-3A |
Mascot | Yellow Jacket |
Nickname | Yellow Jackets |
Yearbook | Yellow Jacket |
Website | [1] |
Iowa High School is a junior and senior high school (grades 6–12) in Iowa, Louisiana. It is a part of Calcasieu Parish Public Schools.
One of the earliest schools in the Iowa area was located on the LeBleu family farm near the Chloe community in the mid-1880s, [3]around the time Seaman A. Knapp, president of the Iowa State College of Agriculture, was working to demonstrate the suitability of the region for rice production. [4]The modern Iowa High School was founded in 1919, [2] and the first modern, brick school building in Iowa was constructed in 1920. [5]To accomplish this, the Calcasieu Parish School Board in December 1919 sold $15,000 in bonds to The Hanchett Bond Company of Chicago. [6]
The Iowa Yellow Jackets compete in Class 3A of the LHSAA. [7]
In April 1965, the city's Lions Club proposed a resolution to the school board to dedicate the IHS football stadium to Jesse Edwin Cady, a longtime school board member who represented the area and who had died the previous month. The resolution passed unanimously. [8]
Wide receiver Curtis Deville became the first football player in school history to sign with a Power 5 conference athletics program when in 2021 he signed a letter of intent to play football at Purdue University, a member of the Big Ten Conference. [9] Andre Sam, a defensive back who initially played at McNeese State University in nearby Lake Charles, would eventually transfer to Marshall University before finishing his college career at LSU of the Southeastern Conference. [10]
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