[5] At about 11 a.m., eyewitnesses reported two explosions and smoke coming from the school's west wing, near the chemistry lab.

Some 50 firefighters from the surrounding areas were called to the fire, but the majority of the school burned to the ground.

[4] The fire was considered either a possible arson or the result of a gas problem,[6] but the cause was not established.

[3] The current complex includes, in addition to classrooms, administrative space, and faculty lounges: a football, baseball, and softball stadium, boys' and girls' basketball gymnasiums, an athletics fieldhouse, an agricultural education building, and a library and courtyard constructed in 2010–2012.

[3] Recently in 2019 they started the BYOD (Bring your own device) program, which is the only school in Louisiana to use this policy so far.