Abbeville High School, Vermilion Parish History, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source; in part: www.vrml.k12.la.us/ahs/
Submitted September 2004

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Abbeville High School was established in 1902.  The facility was a 
combined elementary-high school with the secondary education portion 
assigned to the top classrooms of a three-story brick structure.  The 
building today houses Vermilion Parish School Board offices.  Abbeville 
High School became an approved state high school in 1908, two years after 
it had graduated its first senior class of three members.  

 
Since that time, the school was moved twice.  In 1926 the school was moved 
into a newly-constructed stucco complex of two buildings (located where J. 
H. Williams sits today).  A few years later, a third instructional 
building and a gymnasium were constructed on a campus covering an enter 
city block.  This facility housed first through eleventh grade students 
through 1948 and through twelfth grade until 1968. 

 
In 1968, the present day Abbeville High School opened it's doors for ninth 
through twelfth graders.  It was designed for approximately one thousand 
students; however, in the 1970's there were more than one thousand 
students enrolled, which meant AHS needed expanding.  Since its opening, 
AHS has undergone many additions and renovations in keeping with a 
modified instructional program and with an increasing number of programs 
offered.  The school has expanded in all departments to keep pace with the 
growth and the changing needs of the student body.  Today, AHS consists of 
over 50 classrooms.  In an effort to keep up with the fast 
pace of changing technology. almost every classroom is equipped with 
computers that are connected to the internet. There are four computer 
labs that house 30 computers each.