[2] When West Ouachita High School opened in the fall of 1989, it was an ultra-modern facility designed around a courtyard and amphitheater.

Architects capitalized on the thirty-six acre sloping site to construct a multi-leveled building with 121,000 square feet (11,200 m2) of heated area.

Consequently, the Ouachita Parish School Board purchased an additional twenty-one acres of land and authorized an 11.5 million dollar expansion program which began in the summer of 2002 and was completed in the spring of 2003.

This expansion includes a new 2-story state of the art gymnasium, 6 new tennis courts, and 2 new parking lots; all to accommodate the school's growing population.

In 2014, Andre Johnson, David Lee, Terrell Russell, and Gabriel Tumey took home the 4A Boys 1600m relay with a winning time of 3:21.87.