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Ruston High School

900 Bearcat Drive, Ruston, LA, 71270 -

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Definition of Terms

Ruston High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

Parish

Lincoln Parish, LA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1187 students

% Male / % Female

48% / 52%

Total Classroom Teachers

79 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 370 students

Grade 10 - 243 students

Grade 11 - 306 students

Grade 12 - 268 students

This School

(LA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:15

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(LA) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	2%	1%
% Hispanic	1%	1%
% Black	47%	47%
% White	50%	45%

Additional Student Information

This School

(LA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

38%

42%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(LA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Lincoln Parish School District

This School's Agency

(LA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	19	12
Number of Students Managed	6,829 students	4,968 students
District Total Revenue	$53,998,000	$46,735,000
District Expenditure	$52,342,000	$47,379,000
District Revenue / Student	$7,907	$9,407
District Expenditure / Student	$7,665	$9,537
District Graduation Rates	78%	67%

Minden High soccer tonight at the Rec (nwlanews.com)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 09:09:58 pm
The Minden High soccer program will play a pair of games with Ruston High School tonight out at the Minden Recreation Complex. The Lady Tiders and Lady Bearcats will tangle at 6 p.m. with the boys’ teams to follow at 7:45 p.m.
Around the Western Athletic Conference (USA Today)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 06:31:36 am
Around the Western Athletic Conference
Louisiana Tech - Team Notes (USA Today)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 06:13:17 am
To say the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs were outmanned in their near upset bid of LSU last week would be an understatement.
Youthful Tech linemen earned jobs the old-fashioned way (The News-Star)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 07:27:19 am
RUSTON -- Injuries have forced several Louisiana Tech freshmen into starting roles at wide receiver and defensive back this season.
Even in defeat, Tech's Dooley finds signs of encouragement (The News-Star)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 07:27:18 am
BATON ROUGE — Take one more look at Louisiana Tech's go-ahead touchdown at the end of the first half in Saturday's 24-16 loss to LSU.

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Ruston High School is a 4 year public high school located in the Lincoln Parish School District of Ruston, Louisiana, United States. The school has an enrollment of approximately 1200 students with 85 faculty members; the mascot is the bearcat. The school colors are red and white. It is most recognizable to fans of the Elephant 6 collective for being the meeting place of the original four founders of the collective, Jeff Mangum, Robert Schneider, Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart.
The campus is in the National Registry of Historic Places.
Debate
Ruston High School Speech and Debate has won numerous state championships: Advanced Cross Examination in 2000 and 2006, Intermediate Cross Examination in 2001 and 2002, Novice Cross Examination in 2003, 2004, and 2007, Intermediate Lincoln-Douglas in 2007, Oral Interpretation in 2006, and Student Congress (Senate) in 2007. In 2007, they placed 1st in Novice Cross-Examination Debate, 1st in Declamation, 3rd in Oral Interpretation. Jake Guinn was the recipient Renaissance Award for 2007. Ruston High School placed 3rd overall at the Louisiana High School Speech League State Championships and was the recipient of the Novellen Price Ellis Rotating Sweepstakes Trophy. Gursimran Bola is the first Debate Team Manager.
Track
Ruston High School clearly has one of the best track teams in the state. They are talented in every even and have the best Coach in Louisiana, David Anderson.
Notable faculty
Oscar P. Barnes, Jr. (ca. 1921 - April 17, 2008), was band director at Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish and assistant band director at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before he began his tenure at Ruston High School. In 1987, he was inducted into the Louisiana Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. The City of Ruston proclaimed June 16, 2002, as Oscar P. Barnes Day. A native of Plaquemine, the seat of Iberville Parish in south Louisiana, Barnes was a former choir director of the John Knox Presbyterian Church choir. He was the first conductor of the Russtown Band and played the trombone in the band, "The Debonnaires".
Harold Montgomery, a former Louisiana state senator from Bossier and Webster parishes who also operated Montgomery Feed and Seed in Ruston, taught agriculture at Ruston High School in the 1930s.
Morgan D. Peoples taught history at Ruston High School prior to 1965, when he joined the faculty of Louisiana Tech University for a 20-year career in college teaching.
Notable alumni
Founders of the prolific Elephant Six Collective, Robert Schneider, Jeff Mangum and Will Cullen Hart met at Ruston High School and graduated together. Cofounder Bill Doss attended the neighboring town's Dubach High School, not Ruston High School.
Fred Dean -- inductee into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame, played for Louisiana Tech, San Diego Chargers, and San Francisco 49ers
Wiley W. Hilburn (Class of 1956) -- journalist and head of the Journalism Department at Louisiana Tech
Bert Jones -- NFL Quarterback, nicknamed "The Ruston Rifle", played for Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams
Norman L. Richardson (Class of 1953) -- journalist known for front-line coverage of hurricanes
External links
Official Website
School History from the Alumni Association

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