Education
The Concordia Parish School Board serves Ferriday. Ferriday High School is a light-colored brick structure off LA 15. Its sports teams are known as The Trojans. To the right rear of the high school is the Concordia Parish Library.
In a middle-class residential area of north Ferriday on Jerry Lee Lewis Avenue is the private Huntington High School, first established for all grades in 1970, with the arrival of school desegregation to the remaining segregated districts. The Huntington sports teams are known as the Hounds. Former State Representative Bryant Hammett graduated from Huntington in 1974. Former Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was a graduate of the founding class. Publisher Sam Hanna was among its first directors.
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