Parkway High School (Louisiana)
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Safe, Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Present (SHARP)
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 Parkway High School
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2010 Colleen Drive Bossier City, Louisiana 71112 United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°26′03″N 93°38′41″W / 32.43417°N 93.64472°WCoordinates: 32°26′03″N 93°38′41″W / 32.43417°N 93.64472°W |
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| Type | Public |
| School district | Bossier Parish School Board |
| Principal | Waylon Bates |
| Faculty | about 72 |
| Enrollment | about 1200 |
| Color(s) | Black, White, and Red |
| Athletics conference | LHSAA |
| Nickname | Panthers |
| Website | parkway |
Parkway High School is a class 5A public high school located in Bossier City, Louisiana, United States. The school is under the directory of the Bossier Parish School Board, and is currently under the administration of principal Waylon Bates and vice principals Becky Gray and Justin James. Parkway has been ranked as a "Top Gains School" by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Alongside the main campus, the school operates property at the Preston Crownover Stadium, which serves as the school's main athletics facility. The school is partnered with Bossier Parish Community College and the Bossier Parish School for Technology and Innovative Learning to provide collegiate-level dual enrollment courses and vocational courses.
Parkway High School began as a junior high school in 1963 and became a high school beginning with the freshman class of 1968. The location of the original school was on Panther Drive, north of where the current campus is. The school moved to their new campus on Colleen Drive during the 2009-2010 school year. After the 2015-2016 school year, principal Nichole E. Bourgeois Ed.D. was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent, and vice principal Lorenza Baker was transferred to Rusheon Middle School, where he took on the role of principal. Waylon Bates, former principal of Haughton Middle School, took over as principal of Parkway in the 2016-2017 school year with Justin James taking the vice principal position left vacant by Baker.
Parkway High School has a wide range of extracurricular activities such as its nearly 200 member band, The Pride of Pantherland. Other activities include the Black Cat Revue dance line team, the cheerleading squad, and their Cross Country Team. The school is home to many clubs such as the National Beta Club, the Octagon Club, the National Honor Society, Destination Imagination, and FCA. Being very close to Barksdale Air Force Base, the school has a prominent JROTC program, the LA-071st, which is the second largest JROTC program in the state of Louisiana with more than 300 students in the curriculum. The AFJROTC program includes a widely successful Cyber Patriot team that finished in the top one percent of nationwide teams at the CyberPatriot VI National Finals in 2014.
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