News and Notes this week around Lincoln Parish Schools

This Week in Lincoln Parish Schools

The Lincoln Parish Journal is providing our local schools with an opportunity to submit nuggets from what’s going on at their respective schools in order to get more information out on their students, faculty and staff. The information below comes directly from those schools. Any school wishing to provide content each week can email to flynnhl@warhawks.ulm.edu

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High Schools

Ruston High School

The Bearcat Football team will be taking on their long-time rival, the Neville Tigers, in this year’s Bayou Jamboree hosted at ULM’s Malone Stadium. Join us Saturday, August 31st at 6:00 pm for kickoff.

The gates of the Red Kingdom are opening next Friday night, September 6. Ruston High will kick off the season, playing against the Acadiana Rams at Hoss Garrett Stadium; kickoff will be at 7:00.

Our Bearcat Volleyball team will be taking on the Haughton Buccaneers in Ruston High’s newly renovated gym on Tuesday, September 3. Freshman will play at 4:00, JV at 5:00, and Varsity at 6:00. On Thursday, September 5, volleyball will play Airline at Airline High School; Freshman will play at 4:00, JV at 5:00, and Varsity at 6:00.

The teacher of the week is Ms. Philips. Ms. Philips has been teaching at Ruston High for five years now. Alongside teaching English II, she also coaches the Speech and Debate team. We thank Ms. Philips for all that she does for the Ruston High Bearcats!

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Elementary & Middle Schools

Choudrant Elementary

This year students at Choudrant Elementary will be introduced to STEM/CTE class. They will be given weekly design challenges to find their strengths and interests while learning about jobs that will lead them in the future.

Hillcrest Elementary

Our faculty and staff were welcomed back to school with a luncheon hosted by one of our Adopt-a-School partners, First Baptist Church in Ruston. This was a great time for everyone to reconnect after the summer break. Thank you First Baptist!

Over the last two weeks students returned for the 2024-2025 school year. Our first and second grade students are excited to be back to school and have demonstrated their enthusiasm for learning. Kindergarten students joined us last week and are quickly settling into school routines. We are thrilled to meet each new face and get to know our newest Hawks!

The Hillcrest PTC held its first meeting on Tuesday, August 28th. They are planning to assist with our upcoming Grandparents Dot Day next month. We are so thankful for our PTC!

Upcoming school wide events include the Fall Book Fair and Open House in September.

AE Phillips

Congratulations to the 2024 Volleyball Team:

8th Grade: Emerson Caraway, Ava Good, Molly Madden, Anna Kate Poe, Makaylan Walker

7th Grade: Faith Crawford, Cate Davison, Savannah Foster, AJ Johnson, Emma Sue Kavalir, Hallie Hogan, Lydia Nankya, Emma Powell

6th Grade: Nealy Clark, Kate Cramer

We have several boys who are playing football with IA Lewis and RJHS. We want to recognize those kiddos as well:

6th Graders playing on I.A. Lewis’ team: Landry Gibbons, Camden White, Levi McCulloch, Levi Newsom, Cooper Stoehr, Gipson Goodwin, Andrew Stinson, Dixon Allen, Drew Wade, Peyton Taylor, Brayden Mitchell

7th & 8th Graders playing on RJHS team: Kyle-Allen Burrell, Kade Cripps, Nolan Hogan, Elijah Roberson, Cooper Lee, Jett Jones, WIllie Williams

The following students earned a PERFECT score on the following 2024 Leap assessments in the spring:

Samuel Stone- 3^rd ELA LEAP

Elizabeth Hunt- 3^rd Math LEAP

Jack McGehee- 3^rd Math LEAP

Collins Reigelman- 4^th ELA LEAP

Lucas Chen- 5^th Math LEAP

Eli Denton- 6^th Math LEAP

Jude Faltin- 6^th Math LEAP

Zoe Wang- 6^th Math LEAP

Brady Berg- 7^th Math LEAP

Maryam Wasiuddin- 7^th Science LEAP