Pineville High School

Pineville High School (PHS) is a coeducational public high school located in Pineville, in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, United States. The school opened in 1952. Profile Pineville High School is the largest high school in Rapides Parish. The school's enrollment is approximately 1,500 students as of the 2018–2019 school year. The school has approximately one hundred faculty, staff, and administrators. Arts The school is designated as a magnet center for the creative and performing arts, which hosts award-winning programs in theatre, visual arts, and musical performance. The PHS Theatre has performed musicals such as Legally Blonde, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Les Misérables, Footloose, Grease, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Crazy for You, Oklahoma!, Pippin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, among others. The theatre department also won the 2020 Best of Cenla Readers Choice Award for their performance of Into the Woods (2019), and plans to perform Grease, Young Frankenstein, The Taming of the Shrew, Arsenic and Old Lace, West Side Story, and Matilda in its 2022–23 season. The members of the Pineville High School choral program consistently qualify for the Louisiana Music Educator's Association (LMEA) All-State Choir. The Pineville High School Band competes in marching band competitions across the state of Louisiana, and regularly scores superior ratings at each. The orchestra performs annual Christmas and spring concerts, and the theatre program performs various musicals and plays year-round.