Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet High School
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Fair Park High School
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The school in 2008
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| Location | 3222 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
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| Coordinates | 32°28′45″N 93°47′27″W / 32.47917°N 93.79083°WCoordinates: 32°28′45″N 93°47′27″W / 32.47917°N 93.79083°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Edward F. Neild |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 00001630 |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 2001 |
Fair Park College Preparatory High School, also known as Fair Park College Prep. Academy, and Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet High School is a high school located at 3222 Greenwood Road in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A. When it opened as Fair Park High School in 1928, it was the second high school in the city. C.E. Byrd High School had opened three years earlier in 1925.
In an eight-to-four decision, the Caddo Parish School Board vored in 2017 to merge Fair Park, with seven hundred pupils, with historically black Booker T. Washington High School. The combined thousand students would attend the Washington campus, with Fair Park under the plan becoming a middle school. The state retains final approval on the merger. In standing room only, citizens aired their views to board members on the feasibility of the merger. The board majority claims the merger would save public funds through the combining of resources.
The school was built during the local oil-driven boom of the 1920s. The population of Shreveport had a nearly five-fold increase from 1900 to 1930, causing chronic school overcrowding. It has a three-story main section built of red brick trimmed with limestone. A wing was added in 1931. The entrance features a large pediment resting on colossal pilasters. The building was originally crowned by a three-stage tower, however, the third stage and most of the second were replaced with a small dome-like top in the 1980s. Otherwise, though the building as been further expanded, the bricks sandblasted, and the windows replaced, it would be easily recognizable to its earliest students.
From the middle 1950s until 1967, the historian Hubert D. Humphreys taught at Fair Park.
Fair Park High School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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