Eunice High School

Delta damage to schools estimated at $1.4M

Hurricane Delta caused about $1.4 million in damage to St. Landry Parish public schools. Claudia Blanchard, director of operations for the School Board, gave the estimate at a meeting of the Board’s Buildings, Lands and Sites Committee meeting on Tuesday. “We did have some damages.

Eunice High leads parish ACT scores

Louisiana’s Class of 2020 earned an average ACT Composite score of 18.7. That’s based on the Louisiana Department of Education’s annual release of ACT data for the 2020 high school graduating class.

Parade still on to honor city’s high school seniors

A first-time parade to honor the city’s high school seniors remains scheduled at 6 p.m. Friday from City Hall to Circle Park and back. Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot said the event remains scheduled. The seniors are to wear caps and gowns and march six-feet apart for social distancing.

Fontenot is semi-finalist for state award

Eunice High School Principal Mitchell Fontenot is on the Louisiana Principal of the Year Semi-Finalist list. The Louisiana Principal of the Year is the highest honor the state can bestow upon a principal.

Eunice Elementary bid approved; Eunice High championship year celebrated

Mary Ellen Donatto was elected president of the St. Landry Parish School Board without opposition at Thursday’s Board meeting. Donatto, who retired as principal at East Elementary, is in her second year on the School Board. She was elected without opposition in qualifying July 2018.

Eunice High leads parish ACT results

Eunice High School leads St. Landry Parish in the number of students earning college credits through the Advanced Placement exams. In the 2017-2018 school year, there were 49 students taking AP exams and 20.4 percent scored 3 or greater, which qualified them for college credit.

Eunice students are among AP scholars

Six Eunice High School students are 23 St. Landry Parish students recognized at the October School Board meeting for scoring 3 or higher on Advanced Placement tests during the 2016-17 school year.

‘Blackface’ hazing to be probed

The Lafayette Diocese and St. Edmund administrators said they are investigating a reported case of a hazing involving cheerleaders at St. Edmund High School wearing “blackface.

Back to school

Eunice High School employees listen as St. Landry Parish Superintendent Patrick Jenkins speaks over a closed circuit television in the Opelousas Senior High School gymnasium during the school district’s first convocation themed “Great Expectations” on Tuesday.