The Tensas Parish School Board is an entity responsible for the operation of public schools in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. It is headquartered in the town of St. Joseph.
The superintendent is Carol Shipp Johnson. Her husband, Lanny Johnson, is the former Tensas Parish superintendent who currently serves as superintendent in neighboring Franklin Parish. Lanny Johnson was also a state representative from Tensas and Franklin parishes between 1976 and 1980.
Other former Tensas Parish superintendents were the late A.E. Swanson, Stathum Crosby and Charles Ed Thompson. Tensas Parish native Charles Ed Thompson (1932–1993) later accepted the position of deputy superintendent for special education in Baton Rouge under state Education Superintendent J. Kelly Nix.
In 2006, the Tensas board closed the former Newellton High School in Newellton in northern Tensas Parish. High school students from Newellton are bused to Tensas High School in St. Joseph, formerly known as Joseph Moore Davidson High School. The former Waterproof High School building, now vacant, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered historically significant for the period from 1925-1949, but it was used well past 1949.
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