C. E. Byrd High School
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C. E. Byrd High School is an American public high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, established in 1925. A Blue Ribbon School, it was the eighth largest high school in Louisiana as of February 2019. The school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
A number of notable figures in Residents history were students at Byrd in the 1950s and 1960s, including Homer Flynn, Jay Clem, John Kennedy, and future members of The Residents themselves, who were most likely enrolled in the school between 1959 and 1964.
History
The school opened in October 1925, and was named after Clifton Ellis Byrd, principal of the first public high school in Shreveport (originally located in two rented rooms in the local YMCA building).
The school was racially segregated until the 1960s; its first African-American graduate, Arthur Burton, graduated in 1967. The school became fully desegregated in 1970 when it merged with Valencia High School (now Caddo Magnet High School), with the black administrators from Valencia given minor roles at Byrd.
Notable students
- Palmer Eiland (1955 - 1959)
- Homer Flynn (1959 - 1963)
- Roger "Bunny" Hartley (1959 - 1963)
- Randy Rose (1959 - 1963)
- Jay Clem (1960 - 1964)
- John Kennedy (1960 - 1964)
- Barry Eiland (1960 - 1964)
- Roland Sheehan (1964 - 1967)