It is a part of the Cameron Parish School Board and serves the communities of Johnson Bayou and Holly Beach.

Education in this rural corner of Southwest Louisiana was challenging for early settlers, made especially so by the marshlands and waterways that make up the bulk of Cameron Parish's geography.

[6] In 1984, a statue designed by a local artist commemorating General Robert E. Lee was erected on the front lawn of the high school.

[8] On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey made landfall just west of Johnson Bayou between the village and Sabine Pass with winds in excess of 125 miles per hour.

[9] Four years later, Hurricane Carla sideswiped lower Cameron Parish and caused damage to the JBHS gymnasium floor.

[11] Donations from local industries helped the school get back on its feet, providing temporary buildings, classroom furnishings and audio-visual equipment, including a 30-station mobile laptop lab, as well as new bleachers and a new gymnasium floor to replace the ones destroyed by the storm.

Fortunately for Johnson Bayou, the focus of the most intense damage was centered some 30 miles east of the town, sparing it the worst of the storm surge.

[16] Yet despite hurricane-force winds causing some minor damage, Johnson Bayou was the first campus to completely reopen following the storms.