At the third classification hearing on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, the districting plans for Classes B, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, and 5A received final approval and were adopted for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years by the LHSAA Executive Committee. Benton High will move to class 4A and will compete against in district 1-4A against Bossier, Fair Park, Haughton, Minden, Northwood-Shreveport, Parkway, and Woodlawn-Shreveport. The new district will apply to all sports at BHS for the next two years.

Executive committee approves this classification plan for the 2007-09 school year.

Class 5A

(Enrollment : 1084 and Above. 63 Schools: 56 Football, 2 Coed Non-Football, 5 All Girls)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Airline. 2. Byrd. 3. Captain Shreve. 4. Caddo Magnet (CNF). 5. Huntington. 6. Southwood.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Natchitoches Central. 2. Ouachita. 3. Ruston. 4. West Monroe.

Note: Teams in 1-5A and 2-5A combine to make one football district.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Acadiana. 2. Barbe. 3. Comeaux. 4. St. Thomas More. 5. Sulphur.

DISTRICT 4: 1. Carencro. 2. Lafayette. 3. New Iberia. 4. Pineville. 5. Westgate.

DISTRICT 5: 1. Baton Rouge (CNF). 2. Catholic-BR. 3. Central-BR. 4. Denham Springs. 5. Scotlandville. 6. St. Joseph’s Academy (AG). 7. Walker. 8. Woodlawn-BR.

DISTRICT 6: 1. Destrehan. 2. Dutchtown. 3. East Ascension. 4. East St. John. 5. Hahnville. 6. St. Amant.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Covington. 2. Fontainebleau. 3. Hammond. 4. Mandeville. 5. Northshore. 6. Ponchatoula. 7. Slidell. 8. St. Paul’s. 9. St. Scholastica (AG).

DISTRICT 8: 1. Assumption. 2. H.L. Bourgeois. 3. Central Lafourche. 4. South Lafourche. 5. South Terrebonne. 6. Terrebonne. 7. Thibodaux.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Bonnabel. 2. Ehret. 3. Higgins. 4. Grace King. 5. West Jefferson.

DISTRICT 10: 1. Archbishop Chapelle (AG). 2. Archbishop Rummel. 3. Brother Martin. 4. Chalmette. 5. Dominican (AG). 6. Jesuit. 7. Mount Carmel (AG). 8. Academy of Our Lady (AG). 9. St. Augustine

Class 4A

(Enrollment:  678 – 1083. 59 Schools: 57 Football, 2 All Girls)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Benton. 2. Bossier. 3. Fair Park. 4. Haughton. 5. Minden. 6. Northwood-Shreveport. 7. Parkway 8. Woodlawn-Shreveport.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Bastrop. 2. Carroll. 3. Franklin Parish. 4. Neville. 5. West Ouachita.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Alexandria. 2. Grant. 3. Leesville. 4. Peabody. 5. Tioga.

DISTRICT 4: 1. DeRidder. 2. Eunice. 3. Sam Houston. 4. LaGrange. 5. Washington-Marion.

DISTRICT 5: 1. Abbeville. 2. Beau Chene. 3. Breaux Bridge. 4. Northside. 5. Opelousas. 6. St. Martinville. 7. Teurlings

DISTRICT 6: 1. Belaire. 2. Glen Oaks. 3. Istrouma. 4. Live Oak. 5. Zachary.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Broadmoor. 2. Lee. 3. McKinley. 4. St. Michael. 5. Tara.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Archbishop Shaw. 2. Belle Chasse. 3. Helen Cox. 4. Ellender. 5. Morgan City. 6. Vandebilt Catholic.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Cabrini (AG). 2. East Jefferson. 3. Franklinton. 4. Holy Cross. 5. Pearl River. 6. Riverdale. 7. Salmen

DISTRICT 10: 1. Warren Easton. 2. Karr. 3. McDonogh 35. 4. John McDonogh. 5. O.P. Walker.

Class 3A

(Enrollment: 422-677. 65 Schools: 59 Football,  5 All Girls Coed Non-Football)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Green Oaks. 2. Madison. 3. Rayville. 4. Richwood. 5. B.T. Washington-Shreveport. 6. Wossman.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Caldwell. 2. Jena. 3. North DeSoto. 4. Winnfield.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Avoyelles. 2. Bolton. 3. Buckeye. 4. Bunkie. 5. Marksville. 6. Vidalia.

DISTRICT 4: 1. Iota. 2. Iowa. 3. Jennings. 4. St. Louis. 5. Westlake.

DISTRICT 5: 1. Church Point. 2. Crowley. 3. Northwest. 4. Notre Dame. 5. Rayne.

DISTRICT 6: 1. Catholic-NI. 2. Cecilia. 3. Erath. 4. Kaplan. 5. North Vermilion.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Berwick. 2. Franklin. 3. Patterson. 4. West St. Mary. 5. E.D. White.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Baker. 2. Capitol. 3. Capitol (AG). 4. Northeast. 5. Parkview Baptist. 6. Redemptorist. 7. West Feliciana

DISTRICT 9: 1. Brusly. 2. Lutcher. 3. Plaquemine. 4. Port Allen. 5. St. Charles.

DISTRICT 10: 1. Albany. 2. Amite. 3. Bogalusa. 4. Independence. 5. Loranger. 6. Jewel Sumner.

DISTRICT 11: 1. J.S. Clark. 2. De La Salle. 3. Douglass. 4. Ben Franklin. 5. McMain. 6. Rabouin (CNF). 7. Sarah Reed.

DISTRICT 12: 1. Academy. Sacred. Heart-NO (AG). 2. St. Mary’s (AG). 3. Ursuline (AG). 4. Xavier Prep (AG).

Class 2A

(Enrollment:  241 – 421. 60 Schools: 57 Football, 2 Coed Non-Football, 1 All Girls)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Calvary Baptist. 2. Evangel. 3. Homer. 4. Lakeside. 5. Loyola Prep. 6. North Caddo. 7. Springhill.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Farmerville. 2. Ferriday. 3. Jonesboro-Hodge. 4. Lake Providence. 5. Sterlington.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Lakeview. 2. Mansfield. 3. Many. 4. Menard. 5. Red River.

DISTRICT 4: 1. DeQuincy. 2. East Beauregard. 3. Oakdale. 4. Pickering. 5. Rosepine. 6. South Beauregard.

DISTRICT 5: 1. Kinder. 2. Lake Arthur. 3. Lake Charles-Boston. 4. Vinton. 5. Welsh.

DISTRICT 6: 1. Mamou. 2. Pine Prairie. 3. Port Barre. 4. Opelousas Catholic. 5. Sacred Heart. 6. Ville Platte. 7. Westminster

DISTRICT 7: 1. Donaldsonville. 2. Jeanerette. 3. Livonia. 4. Loreauville. 5. St. John.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Clinton. 2. Dunham. 3. Episcopal. 4. Jackson. 5. Pointe Coupee Central. 6. University Lab.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Doyle (CNF). 2. French Settlement (CNF). 3. Pine. 4. Pope John Paul II. 5. Springfield. 6. St. Helena Central. 7. St. Thomas Aquinas.

DISTRICT 10: 1. Curtis. 2. Fisher. 3. Lusher. 4. McGehee (AG). 5. Newman. 6. Riverside. 7. St. James.

Class 1A

(Enrollment:  240 and below. 57 Schools, 57 Football)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Haynesville. 2. Logansport. 3. Plain Dealing. 4. Ringgold. 5. Sarepta. 6. University Christian.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Arcadia. 2. Bernice. 3. Cedar Creek. 4. Grambling. 5. Ouachita Christian. 6. St. Frederick.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Block. 2. LaSalle. 3. Montgomery. 4. Northwood-Lena. 5. St. Mary;s.

DISTRICT 4: 1. Delhi. 2. Delhi Charter. 3. Mangham. 4. Oak Grove. 5. Tensas

DISTRICT 5: 1. Basile. 2. Elton. 3. Hamilton Christian. 4. Merryville. 5. Oberlin. 6. South Cameron.

DISTRICT 6: 1. Acadiana Prep. 2. Catholic-Pointe Coupee. 3. False River. 4. North Central. 5. St. Edmund. 6. St. Joseph-Plaucheville.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Archbishop Hannan. 2. Christian Life. 3. Desire Street Academy. 4. Kentwood. 5. Northlake Christian. 6. Southern Lab. 7. Varnado.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Central Catholic. 2. Delcambre. 3. Gueydan. 4. Hanson Memorial. 5. Vermilion Catholic.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Ascension Catholic. 2. East Iberville. 3. North Iberville. 4. West St. John. 5. White Castle.

DISTRICT 10: 1. Crescent City. 2. Ecole Classique. 3. Metairie Park Country Day. 4. Ridgewood. 5. South Plaquemines. 6. St. Martin

Class B

(Enrollment: 99 – 240. 48 Schools, 47 Coed Non-Football,1 All Girls)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Castor. 2. Dodson. 3. Doyline. 4. Quitman. 5. Weston.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Choudrant. 2. Downsville. 3. Marion. 4. Shongaloo. 5. Simsboro. 6. Spearsville.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Epps. 2. Forest. 3. Kilbourne. 4. Monterey.

DISTRICT 4: 1. Converse. 2. Florien. 3. Negreet. 4. Stanley. 5. Zwolle.

DISTRICT 5: 1. Anacoco. 2. Evans. 3. Hicks. 4. Hornbeck. 5. Pitkin. 6. Simpson.

DISTRICT 6: 1. Fairview. 2. Glenmora. 3. Grace Christian. 4. Oak Hill. 5. Rapides.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Academy Sacred Heart-Grand Coteau (AG). 2. Bell City. 3. Episcopal of Acadiana. 4. Grand Lake. 5. Hathaway. 6. Lacassine. 7. Midland.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Bethany Christian. 2. Centerville. 3. Hosanna Christian. 4. Houma Christian. 5. Runnels.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Believer’s Life. 2. Holden. 3. Lutheran. 4. Maurepas. 5. Mount Hermon.

Class C

(Enrollment: 98 and Below. 44 Schools, 44  Coed Non-Football)

DISTRICT 1: 1. Athens. 2. Cotton Valley. 3. Dubach. 4. Gibsland-Coleman. 5. Pineview. 6. Summerfield.

DISTRICT 2: 1. Claiborne Christian. 2. Excelsior Christian. 3. Monticello.

DISTRICT 3: 1. Ebarb. 2. Pelican. 3. Pleasant Hill.

DISTRICT 4: 1. Atlanta. 2. Bienville. 3. Calvin. 4. Saline

DISTRICT 5: 1. Central-Jonesville. 2. Georgetown. 3. Harrisonburg. 4. Sicily Island

DISTRICT 6: 1. Elizabeth. 2. Plainview. 3. Reeves. 4. Singer.

DISTRICT 7: 1. Assembly Christian. 2. Bethel Christian. 3. Northside Christian.

DISTRICT 8: 1. Hackberry. 2. Hyatt. 3. Johnson Bayou. 4. Starks.

DISTRICT 9: 1. Brighton Academy. 2. Family Christian. 3. Gables. 4. Jehovah-Jireh. 5. La. New School. 6. La. School for Deaf. 7. La. School Vis. Impaired. 8. Millerville Academy. 9. Starkey Academy.

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