Sibley High School (Sibley, Louisiana)

The original Sibley High School was built in 1923, housing grades K-12. When it burned some months later, the school was rebuilt in 1924, and remained a school for all grades until 1974, when the school board changed the southern district’s system.

Not only were the schools desegregated, many of the grades were realigned. Heflin and Dubberly schools became elementary schools, housing grades kindergarten through five; Central High School became a junior high, housing grades six through eight; while Sibley became the high school, housing grades nine through 12.

Then, in 1998, bond issues were passed in the south district to build a new junior/senior high school — Lakeside. The new school now houses grades seven and eight on the junior high side, and grades nine through 12 on the senior high side.

At the former Central Junior High School, the Webster Parish School Board turned it into the elementary school for the entire south district, housing Pre-K through sixth grades.