Original Research by School Decision on Haughton High School
Haughton High School is a regular public high school in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, serving grades eight through twelve. In practice, its enrollment of well over a thousand students is concentrated in grades nine through twelve, with no eighth graders reported in the available data. The school is the sole high school for the town of Haughton, a small but fast-growing community on the I-20 corridor about fifteen miles east of Bossier City. Haughton describes itself as having a quiet, rural hometown feel while being part of the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area, and its growth is one of the fastest in the parish. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial share of Black students, a smaller but noticeable Hispanic population, and a modest number of students who identify as two or more races. Nearly half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a moderate level of economic diversity.
The most notable gap in the available information is academic performance. State testing data from the 2014–15 school year shows a very low proficiency rate for eighth-grade math and English language arts, but the number of students tested was reported as zero, making the results impossible to interpret. More recent assessment results for the school were not present in the source. No graduation rate, chronic absenteeism rate, or discipline data were available either. A parent considering this school would want to ask the school or district directly for current test scores, graduation rates, and course offerings, since that information is simply missing from the public data used here. Similarly, no information was found on advanced coursework, career and technical programs, or staffing ratios.
The town’s housing market is relevant context. The typical home value in Haughton’s zip code is above the state average but below the national median, and values have been rising alongside the town’s population growth. The homeownership rate is high, and the town is described as ideal for families, with schools that are expanding. Commuting is almost entirely by car, and the average commute time is moderate, with many residents likely working in the larger Shreveport-Bossier metro area.
What a family gets with Haughton High School is a large, comprehensive high school in a growing suburban-rural community, serving a fairly diverse student body economically and racially. The school’s academic reputation is hard to judge from the data at hand, which is a significant limitation. The town’s rapid development suggests increasing enrollment and possible changes to facilities and programs, but no specific recent district changes were identified. For a family that values a small-town setting with metro access and wants to investigate the school’s current academic standing directly, Haughton High School is a place worth a closer look—but the lack of published performance data means that look will require more than a search of standard databases.
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