East Carroll Parish School Board is a

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headquartered in

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. The district's boundaries are that of

East Carroll Parish East Carroll Parish () is a parish located in the Mississippi Delta in northeastern Louisiana. As of 2020, its population was 7,459. The parish seat is Lake Providence. An area of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, the parish in the ear ...

. In the 2012–2013 school year, East Carroll Parish public schools had the third highest rate of improvement statewide in the annual end-of-course examinations administered in Algebra I and English II.

School uniforms

The district requires all students in grades Kindergarten through 8 to wear

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Schools

Schools: * General Trass High School (

) * Griffin Middle Academy (Lake Providence) * Southside Elementary School (Lake Providence) Former schools: * G. W. Griffin High School (Lake Providence) * Monticello High School * Northside Elementary School * Transylvania Elementary School (

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) - By 2005 it had stopped operations and was abandoned.

References

External links

East Carroll Parish School Board
School districts in Louisiana

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