History
It was the second high school built in Terrebonne Parish after the parish's first high school, Terrebonne High School, became overcrowded with an influx of students from the lower areas of the parish.
The school was designed by the architectural firm of Curtis and Davis, who later designed the Superdome in New Orleans.
South Terrebonne High was officially opened in 1961, with the first graduating class commencing in 1962. Most of the first graduating class were transferred into South Terrebonne for their senior year when the district was reapportioned, and some students delayed their graduation from Terrebonne High in 1961 in order to graduate in the first graduating class at the new school in 1962.
In 1968 Southdown High School (originally Houma Colored High School), which educated black students in Terrebonne Parish, closed. Students were moved to South Terrebonne High and Terrebonne High School. [2]
The school housed students from grades 8-12 when it first opened in 1961. As the population grew more in the southern part of the parish, causing more feeder schools to be built and open, eventually, South Terrebonne would only house students in their sophomore, junior, or senior year by 1988. Once Ellender Memorial High School, itself a feeder school to South Terrebonne, was expanded from a junior high school to become the parish's fourth high school, freshmen were then reestablished to South Terrebonne. Today, the school houses over 1,000 students in grades 9-12, with 8th graders added in special education or advanced gifted classes.
From 2015 to 2016 the Louisiana State Department of Education score for this school increased from 88.8 to 108, meaning the ranking improved to an "A" level. [3]
On August 29, 2021, the landfall of Hurricane Ida on the Louisiana coast caused significant damage to the South Terrebonne campus. For the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year, South Terrebonne students attended H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray under a afternoon flex schedule. A temporary modular campus at South Terrebonne would be constructed on the western lawn in front of the school, while reconstruction and renovation is underway on the main buildings. Renovation is expected to be complete by the 2025-2026 school year.
Furthermore, Lacache Middle School in Chauvin, also damaged by Hurricane Ida, was relocated to its own temporary modular campus in the student parking lot of South Terrebonne. A new middle school, proposed to be named South Terrebonne Middle School, will be constructed just north of the high school. Students from Lacache will merge with Montegut Middle School into one feeder middle school, expected to open in the 2027-2028 school year.
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