Central High School (Central, Louisiana)
Central High School is a public high school in Central, Louisiana, United States, in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. It is the only high school in the Central Community School System.

The Central school system serves the entire city of Central, as well as a section of the Brownfields census-designated place and another small unincorporated area.

A 9th-grade academy building was planned as a way of relieving congestion within the main school facility and was finished in 2015.

History
The school was originally a part of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. As a part of the EBR school board, it served most of Central, and a portion of Brownfields.

Athletics
Central High athletics competes in the LHSAA.

Football
In 2023, Central High hired new head coach David Simoneaux, a Baton Rouge native who graduated from Parkview Baptist High School, and previously coached at nearby Catholic High School in Baton Rouge and Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee.

Championships
Football championships
(1) State Championship: 1966

Baseball championships
(7) State Championships: 1978, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2017, 2018

Notable alumni
Notable people who attended the school include:
 Donnie Lewis – American football cornerback who most recently played for the Birmingham Stallions in the USFL, he has also spent time in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, and Denver Broncos. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Browns with the 221st pick out of Tulane University.

References

External links
 Central High School
 

Public high schools in Louisiana
Schools in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing