Webster Parish School Board


Webster Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Minden in northwestern Louisiana, United States. The district operates public schools in Webster Parish.
The district is governed by an elected and compensated school board. Daniel R. Rawls begins duties as superintendent on January 7, 2014. In 2017, Johnny Rowland, Jr., was unanimously chosen by the school board as the superintendent to succeed Rawls.

Schools

Primary schools

PK-6
5-6
PK and 6
K-5
6-8
7-8
6-12
7-12
9-12
The three most recent state representatives from Webster Parish, Everett Doerge, Jean Doerge, and Gene Reynolds, were all formerly employed by the Webster Parish School Board.
At least two other previous state representatives, J. J. Carter and Parey Branton, were former members of the Webster Parish School Board; Branton, a board president.
Dorothy Garrett Smith, a WPSB member from 1971 to 1987, was from 1989 until her death in 1990 the first woman president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Former superintendent E. S. Richardson was from 1936 to 1941 the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
Former board president William G. Stewart was the namesake of the former William G. Stewart Elementary School, which operated in Minden from 1949 to 2011.