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Ruston High School

4-year, public high school in Ruston, Louisiana, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ruston High School is a four-year public high school located in Lincoln Parish School District of Ruston, Louisiana, United States. It was founded in 1921, and the current high school was built in 1939 near the campus of Louisiana Tech University.

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Ruston High School Front Steps c.1970
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Ruston High School Front steps 1963-64
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Ruston High School 1962
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Ruston High School Front view
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Background

The 7 acres (2.8 ha) campus of Ruston High School consists of two buildings, which were added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1992.[2][3][4]

The mascot is the Bearcat, with the school colors being red, white, and gray.[citation needed] Black students were first admitted in 1970.[citation needed] Ruston High School also serves as a memorial to the survivors of the Gulf War.[5]

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Ruston High School 1968
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Athletics

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Ruston High athletics competes in the LHSAA. The Bearcats compete in the highest classification in Louisiana (5A) and participates in District 2-5A.

The Bearcats play in Hoss Garrett Stadium, located across the street from Ruston High School.

Championships

Football championships

  • (1) National Championship: 1990[6]
  • (9) State Championships: 1925, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2023[7]
  • (5) State Runner-Up: 1944, 1984, 1998, 2022, 2024

Jimmy Childress

LHSAA Hall of Fame Head Coach Jimmy Childress (1932-2015) was head coach at Ruston High School for eleven seasons (1979 to 1990).[8] He led his alma mater to a 131–27 (.829) record and four state championships in 1982, 1986, 1988, and 1990.[8] His 1990 team also won a national championship.[8] As a player, he was on the 1947 state championship football team.[8] He was an assistant football coach at Neville High School in Monroe from 1958 to 1972 helping the school to win four state championships and was later head coach at Carroll High School in Monroe in 1973 and at the private Cedar Creek School in Ruston from 1976 to 1978.[8] He also coached at the college level at Northeastern Louisiana University from 1974 to 1976.[8] In 2001, he was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.[8]

Childress played football and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana State College, and obtained his graduate degree at Louisiana Tech University.[9]

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Radio

The school owns a radio station, KBNF-LP (101.3 FM, "101.3 KBNF"), founded in 2014, which broadcasts to the Ruston area with a 1980s classic hits format. The broadcast license is held by the Lincoln Parish School Board.[10] Ruston High School is one of two high schools in the state of Louisiana with a student radio program broadcasting to the Ruston area.

Notable alumni

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