List of Louisiana state high school football champions

Below is a list of Louisiana state high school football champions sanctioned by various organizations since they began holding formal high school football state championship games in Louisiana in 1909, as well as informal state championship games held since 1907. High schools in the state are currently divided between the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, a small number of independent private schools, and those private schools that choose to compete across state lines for Midsouth Association of Independent Schools honors. In the past schools also competed under the auspices of the Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization, the Louisiana Independent School Association, the Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association, and the Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana.

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Background

Although numerous late-season games are known to have been hastily scheduled between prominent teams and informally dubbed "state championship" games back in high school football's early years, these games generally based their authority solely on general acclamation and were held without formal, independent third-party sponsors. Several early games are notable exceptions to this, but even then these games usually featured a home team as a draw; neutral playing sites may have given this series of games a stronger sense of legitimacy.

For what it is worth, in high school football's earliest days multiple New Orleans-area regional organizations—that were at times administered by Tulane University—came and went that could have theoretically also determined de facto state champions based sheerly on the lack of existing teams in other parts of the state. The first of these organizations, the Interscholastic Football League, was sponsored by the Tulane Athletic Association and began play for the city's pennant during the 1895 campaign.

Informal state championship games (1907–1929)

In high school football's early years, a number of prominent schools added late season games against other strong teams and claimed that these games would be for the "state championship." In some cases a third team that felt unfairly left out of the process would then challenge the winner of that state championship contest to a game of their own shortly afterward, essentially meaning that there would be a second state championship game that very same season—effectively creating a de facto early form of playoffs, just without the sponsorship of a controlling legal authority that could award a trophy. In 1914 and 1917, there were three or even four games that had been designated as state championships, as the annual State Fair of Louisiana in Shreveport and National Farm and Live Stock Show in New Orleans respectively had staged games for the title that had been considered too early in the season by some schools to truly settle the issue of crowning a champion.

The first ever champion, Jefferson College of Convent, had a campus that consisted of a high school, junior college, and college. At the time, the school regularly scheduled a mixture of high school and university-level club, junior varsity, and varsity teams. It defeated Boys High (later called Warren Easton) of New Orleans in 1907 for the first high school state title, by a score of 27–0.

Year	(no classifications)
1907	Convent Jefferson College
1908	Jennings (first game)
	Jennings (second game)
1909*	Baton Rouge (first game)
1911	Baton Rouge
1912	New Orleans Easton (first game)
	New Orleans Easton (second game)
1913	Baton Rouge (first game)
	Baton Rouge (second game)
1914**	Baton Rouge (second game)
	New Orleans Easton (third game)
	New Orleans Easton (fourth game)
1917†	Baton Rouge (second game)
	Baton Rouge (third game)
1919	Baton Rouge
1920‡	New Orleans Easton (first game)
1926	Baton Rouge Colored
1927	Baton Rouge McKinley
1928	Ruston Lincoln
1929	Baton Rouge McKinley

Notes: *—second state championship game that season was sponsored by the Louisiana State University Athletic Department (see the "Louisiana State University Athletic Department" subsection for more information); **—first state championship game that season was sponsored by the State Fair of Louisiana (see the "State Fair of Louisiana" subsection for more information); †—first state championship game that season was sponsored by the National Farm and Live Stock Show (see the "National Farm and Live Stock Show and Live Stock Buyers' Convention" subsection for more information); ‡—second state championship game that season was sponsored by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (see the "Louisiana High School Athletic Association" subsection for more information)

Louisiana State University Athletic Department (1909)

In 1909 the athletic department of LSU sponsored a state championship game, complete with a trophy. The hometown school, Baton Rouge High, defeated Boys High in the game, 17–5.

Year	(no classifications)
1909	Baton Rouge

Calcasieu–Louisiana Fair (1910)

The first annual Calcasieu–Louisiana Fair scheduled a high school football game between the hometown Lake Charles High team and Boys High, billing it as being for the state championship. The game was a very successful draw, as 3,000 of the fair's 10,000 attendees watched LCHS' 17–11 victory.

Year	(no classifications)
1910	Lake Charles

State Fair of Louisiana (1914–1915)

The Shreveport-based State Fair of Louisiana, which was known to host football games in conjunction with the fair—the Louisiana State Fair Classic for college teams, for example—also sponsored a series of games involving high school teams in the 1910s. Although earliest teams do not appear to have been billed as facing off for the state crown, the fair began to promote later games as being for a formal state championship. However, even these games did not necessarily resolve the issue of a true state champion—and indeed may have even actually helped generate further controversy—since the annual fair always scheduled its championship game participants well before the end of the high school football season (meaning that the games may have only reflected the best teams from the first half of the season). Also, the local team from Shreveport High (later called C. E. Byrd) was usually invited to play as the representative of North Louisiana in the state fair's game, which was a particular concern in 1916 when SHS had a down year. Also, the newly-created LHSAA was largely rendering it obsolete any way.

Below is a listing of all state fair football champions.

Year	(no classifications)
1914*	Shreveport
1915	Shreveport

Notes: *—championship disputed (Baton Rouge High later maintained that shortly before game time Shreveport High, later called C. E. Byrd, acknowledged fielding an ineligible player, so BRHS only agreed to continue if the game would be re-designated as an informal exhibition game; neither SHS nor the State Fair of Louisiana is known to have been documented as having corroborated this claim)

Times–Picayune (1915)

The New Orleans Times–Picayune sponsored a game (for the state championship) between two city schools, Easton and New Orleans Jesuit. The two schools had tied 6–6 earlier in the season, so the game was seen as an opportunity to both break the tie and to serve as a fundraiser for the newspaper's Doll and Toy Fund drive for needy children's Christmas presents at the same time. However, Jesuit's starting quarterback had been injured in the first game and was not able to recover in time to participate in the second game. Easton won, 13–12.

What set this state championship game apart from the state fair's game earlier that season is that this one included a private school, the first time that a private school had been allowed to compete for a state crown. Easton had actually approached Shreveport High, the state fair's champion, about playing earlier in the season but was turned down. It is not immediately clear what, if anything, of Easton's offer to play was considered objectionable to SHS.

This game was a forerunner to the annual "Toy Bowl" that the Times–Picayune began sponsoring annually in 1933 to raise money for its Doll and Toy Fund—and was occasionally held in conjunction with state championship games.

Year	(no classifications)
1915	New Orleans Easton

Louisiana High School Athletic Association (1916–Present)

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) was founded in 1915 to serve as an interscholastic governing organization for white public high schools (since private schools were not included, a similar, competing regional organization called the "Prep School Athletic Association" was formed for New Orleans-area private schools later on that same year). Additional discussions continued on into 1916 for improving and strengthening the new body (including the drafting of a constitution). Among the earliest controversies that the fledgling LHSAA would be called upon to resolve were competing claims to the 1916 football crown. Shreveport High's regular season shutout loss to Minden High suddenly made the state fair's previously-scheduled game between SHS and Easton seem far less useful for determining the state championship. MHS and Easton quickly attempted to fit a replacement match into their existing schedules, but no firm playing date could be arranged; the LHSAA ended up siding with Easton's claim to the title. The LHSAA also faced much more serious issues in its early years, with older students enrolling in the military for the war effort and with Spanish Flu victims in general. Numerous teams were disbanded and games canceled during the outbreak, and a travel ban greatly limited the remaining active teams.

The association split into classifications based upon enrollment numbers in 1921. Private schools (1929) and schools with enrollments that were entirely African American (1968) were later extended membership relatively without incident (integrated schools, however, had never been expressly prevented from joining). The association also survived two major attempts at schisms. In 1946 the stronger public school football programs of the then-top class (Class AA) attempted to form a "Big 12" that would play a round-robin schedule to determine its champion instead of using the playoff system. After being decisively outvoted at the next LHSAA meeting, the Big 12 was not particularly forthcoming about its future plans. One of the private school representatives at the meeting likened the effort to having "bordered on fascism" for acting without private schools. In 2013 the association moved schools that had selective student body enrollments into separate divisions; the move was driven by the principal of Winnfield Senior High to minimize the impact of successful private schools John Curtis Christian of River Ridge and Evangel Christian of Shreveport (however, despite now having a much smaller pool of teams to compete against in the playoffs, Curtis and Evangel have only won two championships combined since the split). Schools deemed as "selective" included charter, dual-curriculum, laboratory, magnet, and private schools (it did not, however, include schools with gifted education programs or, notably, schools allowed to have a parish-wide attendance zone for football players if designated as the sole football-playing public school within that parish; Winnfield Senior High is the only football-playing school in Winn Parish). Though largely opposed to the split, in 2019 select schools voted to create their own "Louisiana Select Association" (LSA) to manage issues that they felt had not been properly addressed by the LHSAA membership as a whole. Shortly afterward, this new LSA—led by a number of South Louisiana schools that accused the LHSAA of not living up to its obligations to share revenue from the football championship games held at the Caesars Superdome—then declined to use the Superdome for its own select division championship games, starting with the 2019 event. However, all select championship games moved back to the Superdome in 2022. The LHSAA, which is based in Baton Rouge, has been recognized as Louisiana's sole representative to the National Federation of State High School Associations over other competing private school associations. The 2016 Louisiana floods caused extensive damage to the LHSAA's offices. Shortly before that event the LHSAA "was legally deemed a private organization"—which could hold future ramifications over the transparency of its inside activities, as well as its member schools' ability to internally and publicly challenge its decisions in a court of law.

Below is a listing of all LHSAA football champions since its founding. In recent years, six championship games (played between 2005 and 2020) were ordered forfeited by the LHSAA. In each early case, as per LHSAA rules, the runner-up was recognized as the new state champion and awarded its respective trophy, except for Baton Rouge University Lab's 2013 team, which could only be nominally acknowledged as champion since Curtis sought to challenge its forfeiture in court—and the LHSAA physically issuing the championship trophy to University Lab cannot be "revisited" until the pending lawsuit is decided. Early indications are that Baton Rouge Catholic's recently forfeited 2017 and 2020 Select Division I titles may not necessarily be reissued to the respective runners-up. It is not immediately clear why that is, given the past precedents.

The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans: a regular venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games since 1981.

Independence Stadium in Shreveport: a temporary venue for LHSAA Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic state championship football games in 2005, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Harry Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches: a temporary venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Year	(no classifications)
1916*	New Orleans Easton
1917**	(no champion)
1918**	(no champion)
1919**	(no champion)
1920	New Orleans Easton

Notes: *—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but declared champion instead; **—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but also declined to declare champions

Year	Class A
1921	New Orleans Easton
1922*	(no champion)
1923**	Morgan City
1924†	Haynesville
1925**	Ruston
1926**	Shreveport Byrd
1927	Bastrop

Notes: *—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but also declined to declare champion; **—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but declared champions instead; †—Class A championship game ceded, by Shreveport High (later called C. E. Byrd)

Year	Class A	Class B
1928	Homer	Kentwood
1929	Haynesville	Rayville
1930	Shreveport Byrd	Jonesboro
1931	Shreveport Byrd	Rayville
1932	Lake Charles	Tallulah
1933*	New Orleans Jesuit	Tallulah
1934	Shreveport Byrd	Tallulah
1935	Shreveport Byrd	Vinton
1936	Haynesville	Vinton

Note: *—Class A championship game tie broken by total 20-yard line penetrations

Year	Class AA	Class A	Class B
1937	Shreveport Byrd	Homer	Columbia
1938	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Minden	Lake Charles LaGrange
1939* **	Jennings	Homer	Kentwood
1940	New Orleans Jesuit	Ponchatoula	Arcadia
1941	New Orleans Jesuit	Ruston	Donaldsonville Catholic
1942†	New Orleans Easton	Bossier	Lake Charles Landry Memorial
1943‡	New Orleans Jesuit	Sulphur	Waterproof
1944	Baton Rouge	Sulphur	Slidell
1945	New Orleans Holy Cross	Jonesboro–Hodge	Slidell
1946	New Orleans Jesuit	Sulphur	Tallulah
1947	Bogalusa	Ruston	Baker
1948§	New Orleans Fortier	Bossier	Tallulah
1949	Shreveport Byrd	Destrehan	Boutte Hahnville
1950	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Baker	Clinton
1951	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Ruston	Delhi
1952	Shreveport Fair Park	Springhill	Kenner
1953	New Orleans Jesuit	Westlake	Ferriday

Notes: *—Class AA championship game ceded, by Baton Rouge Istrouma; **—Class A championship game tie broken by total first downs; †—Class AA championship game played under "Toy Bowl" moniker; ‡—Class B championship game ceded, by New Orleans Academy; §—Class AA championship game played under "Toy Bowl" moniker

Year	Class AAA	Class AA	Class A	Class B
1954	Lake Charles	Minden	Ferriday	Donaldsonville
1955	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Monroe Neville	Ferriday	New Orleans Holy Name
1956	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Minden	Ferriday	Mangham
1957	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Morgan City	Tallulah	Delhi
1958	Lake Charles	Reserve Leon Godchaux	Tallulah	Greensburg
1959	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Monroe Neville	Houma Central Catholic	Vacherie St. James
1960	New Orleans Jesuit	Pineville	Tallulah	Vacherie St. James
1961	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Monroe Neville	Tallulah	Oberlin
1962	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Monroe Neville	New Iberia Catholic	Clinton
1963	New Orleans Holy Cross	Minden	Amite	Lockport
1964	Baton Rouge	Napoleonville Assumption	Lockport	Metairie Ridgewood Prep
1965	Sulphur	Larose–Cutoff	Lake Charles Landry Memorial	Arcadia
1966	Baton Rouge Broadmoor	Central	Buras	Vacherie St. James
1967	Bossier City Airline	Shreveport Jesuit	Kinder	Ville Platte Sacred Heart
1968	Shreveport Woodlawn	Boutte Hahnville	Thibodaux E. D. White Catholic	Clinton
1969	Bogalusa	Natchitoches	Thibodaux E. D. White Catholic	Kentwood

Year	Class AAAA	Class AAA	Class AA	Class A
1970	Harvey West Jefferson	Hammond	Haynesville	Elton
1971*	New Orleans Brother Martin	Cut Off South Lafourche	Haynesville	Edgard Second Ward
1972**	Monroe Neville	Boutte Hahnville	Lake Charles W. O. Boston	Edgard Second Ward
1973	Shreveport Captain Shreve	Destrehan	Crowley Notre Dame	Donaldsonville Ascension Catholic
1974	Baton Rouge Tara	Monroe Richwood	Opelousas Catholic	Baton Rouge University Lab
1975	New Orleans St. Augustine	Lutcher	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Gilbert
1976	Covington	Shreveport Jesuit	Crowley Notre Dame	Franklin Hanson Memorial
1977	Cut Off South Lafourche	Haughton	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Natchitoches St. Mary's Catholic
1978	New Orleans St. Augustine	Lutcher	Kinder	New Roads Catholic
1979†	New Orleans St. Augustine	Vacherie St. James	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Port Sulphur
1980	Reserve East St. John	Minden	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Baton Rouge Southern Lab
1981	Marrero Ehret	St. Martinville	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Port Sulphur
1982	Ruston	Eunice	Winnfield	Baton Rouge Southern Lab
1983	Monroe Neville	Lutcher	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Kentwood
1984	Monroe Neville	St. Martinville	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Haynesville
1985	Marrero Ehret	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Springhill	Monroe Ouachita Christian
1986‡	Ruston	Monroe Wossman	Kentwood	Baton Rouge Southern Lab
1987	Marrero Shaw	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Jonesboro–Hodge	Haynesville
1988	Ruston	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Jonesboro–Hodge	Baton Rouge University Lab
1989	Monroe Ouachita Parish	Crowley	Jonesboro–Hodge	Oak Grove
1990	Ruston	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Buras	Haynesville

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total first downs; **—Class AAA championship game tie broken by total first downs; †—Class AAA championship game determined by overtime; ‡—Class AAAA championship game determined by overtime

Year	Class 5A	Class 4A	Class 3A	Class 2A	Class 1A
1991*	Thibodaux	Bourg South Terrebonne	Mansfield	Haynesville	Oak Grove
1992*	Lafayette Carencro	Boutte Hahnville	Jennings	Coushatta	Donaldsonville Ascension Catholic
1993**	West Monroe	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	New Orleans Karr	Haynesville	Shreveport Evangel Christian
1994	Boutte Hahnville	Slidell Salmen	Amite	Haynesville	Shreveport Evangel Christian
1995	Monroe Neville	Slidell Salmen	Breaux Bridge Cecilia	Haynesville	Logansport
1996†	West Monroe	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Shreveport Evangel Christian	Haynesville	Baton Rouge Southern Lab
1997	West Monroe	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Shreveport Evangel Christian	Monroe Ouachita Christian	Kentwood
1998	West Monroe	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Shreveport Evangel Christian	Edgard West St. John	Kentwood
1999	Shreveport Evangel Christian	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Amite	Iota	Oak Grove
2000	West Monroe	Slidell Salmen	Crowley Notre Dame	Monroe Ouachita Christian	Haynesville
2001	Shreveport Evangel Christian	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist	Farmerville	Oak Grove
2002	Shreveport Evangel Christian	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Baton Rouge Redemptorist	Port Barre	Port Sulphur
2003	Boutte Hahnville	Baton Rouge Redemptorist	Lutcher	Edgard West St. John	Abbeville Vermilion Catholic
2004	Shreveport Evangel Christian	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Amite	Edgard West St. John	St. George Dunham
2005‡	West Monroe	Breaux Bridge	Baton Rouge Redemptorist	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Shreveport Evangel Christian
2006	Lafayette Acadiana	Bastrop	Lutcher	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Shreveport Evangel Christian
2007	Destrehan	Bastrop	Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Buras South Plaquemines
2008	Destrehan	Belle Chasse	Lutcher	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Buras South Plaquemines
2009	West Monroe	Monroe Neville	Crowley Notre Dame	Shreveport Evangel Christian	Haynesville
2010§	Lafayette Acadiana	Franklinton	Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist	Shreveport Evangel Christian	White Castle
2011	West Monroe	Monroe Neville	LaPlace St. Charles Catholic	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Monroe Ouachita Christian
2012	Metairie Rummel	New Orleans Karr	Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Monroe Ouachita Christian

Notes: *—Class 5A championship games determined by overtime; **Class 3A championship game determined by overtime; †—Class 1A championship game determined by double-overtime; ‡—Class 4A championship game determined by forfeit, by Bastrop; §—Class 4A championship game determined by overtime

Year	Non-select Class 5A	Non-select Class 4A	Non-select Class 3A	Non-select Class 2A	Non-select Class 1A	Select Division I	Select Division II	Select Division III	Select Division IV
2013*	Lafayette Acadiana	Metairie East Jefferson	Farmerville Union Parish	Kinder	Haynesville	Metairie Rummel	Baton Rouge University Lab	Shreveport Calvary Baptist	Abbeville Vermilion Catholic
2014	Lafayette Acadiana	Monroe Neville	Livonia	Many	Haynesville	New Orleans Jesuit	Baton Rouge University Lab	Shreveport Calvary Baptist	Monroe Ouachita Christian
2015**	Zachary	Monroe Neville	Lutcher	Kinder	Kentwood	Baton Rouge Catholic	Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist	Crowley Notre Dame	Natchitoches St. Mary's Catholic
2016**	New Orleans Landry–Walker Prep	New Orleans Karr	Lutcher	Monroe Sterlington	Logansport	Shreveport Evangel Christian	Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic	Reserve Riverside	Youngsville Ascension Episcopal
2017†	Zachary	New Orleans Karr	St. Francisville West Feliciana	Welsh	Edgard West St. John	Baton Rouge Catholic	Baton Rouge University Lab	New Iberia Catholic	Lafayette Christian
2018	Zachary	New Orleans Karr	Eunice	Amite	Kentwood	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Baton Rouge University Lab	Crowley Notre Dame	Lafayette Christian

Notes: *—Non-select Class 3A championship game determined by double-overtime and Select Division II championship game determined by forfeit, by River Ridge John Curtis Christian; **—Select Division IV championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Southern Lab; †—Select Division I championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Catholic (the LHSAA is not yet documented as having formally recognized runner-up River Ridge John Curtis Christian as the new champion)

Year	Non-select Class 5A	Non-select Class 4A	Non-select Class 3A	Non-select Class 2A	Non-select Class 1A	Louisiana Select Association Division I	Louisiana Select Association Division II	Louisiana Select Association Division III	Louisiana Select Association Division IV
2019	Lafayette Acadiana	New Orleans Karr	Vacherie St. James	Ferriday	Oak Grove	Metairie Rummel	Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic	Lafayette Christian	Monroe Ouachita Christian
2020*	Lafayette Acadiana	Lafayette Carencro	Baton Rouge Madison Prep	Many	Oak Grove	Baton Rouge Catholic	Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic	Lafayette Christian	Shreveport Calvary Baptist
2021	Zachary	New Iberia Westgate	Monroe Sterlington	Amite	Homer	Baton Rouge Catholic	Baton Rouge University Lab	LaPlace St. Charles Catholic	Baton Rouge Southern Lab

Note: *—Louisiana Select Association Division I championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Catholic (the LHSAA is not yet documented as having formally recognized runner-up Shreveport Byrd as the new champion)

Year	Non-select Division I	Non-select Division II	Non-select Division III	Non-select Division IV	Select Division I	Select Division II	Select Division III	Select Division IV
2022	Destrehan	Lutcher	Many	Oak Grove	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	Lafayette St. Thomas More	LaPlace St. Charles Catholic	Monroe Ouachita Christian
2023	Ruston	Opelousas	Farmerville Union Parish	Oak Grove	Baton Rouge Catholic	Lafayette St. Thomas More	Shreveport Calvary Baptist	Baton Rouge Southern Lab

National Farm and Live Stock Show and Live Stock Buyers' Convention (1917)

The 1917 National Farm and Live Stock Show was held in New Orleans, complete with a relatively early-season state championship football game between Easton and Minden High that was won by Easton, 44–7.

Year	(no classifications)
1917	New Orleans Easton

Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide (1918)

Despite the various wartime shortages and Spanish Flu-related travel restrictions and disbandments of teams, apparently enough games did manage to be held in 1918 that Easton would later be described as state champions by a national publication. Otherwise, the new LHSAA passed on designating its own champion, and a proposed, unsponsored championship game between Easton and Winnfield never got past the planning stages.

Year	(no classifications)
1918	New Orleans Easton

Texas–Louisiana Football Series (1922–1923)

In 1922 and 1923, attempts were made to pair the state champions of Louisiana and Texas in a postseason event.

In 1922, without any official explanation, the LHSAA issued a simple statement that it would not endorse any playoff games or otherwise declare a champion for that season. Speculation was that the primary playoff contenders were just simply too far spread out from each other to make it worth the effort, especially since they had fared only modestly better over the course of the season than the non-contenders had. As far as the Texas–Louisiana series was concerned, Shreveport High (which had at least managed to defeat all of its in-state opponents) was considered the champion of Louisiana for the sake of the game.

The following year, the LHSAA declined to recognize the already-scheduled state championship game between Homer and Morgan City, and declared Morgan City its champion instead. The game was played any way, with Homer winning. Homer was then designated as Louisiana's representative for the planned New Year's Day face-off between the Louisiana and Texas champions at Centenary College, under the proposed backing of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.

Year	(no classifications)
1922	Shreveport
1923	Homer

Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (1936–1949)

The Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (LIALA) was created for African American high schools in 1935, with the merging of two regional interscholastic organizations and the backing of Southern University. It sponsored its first football championship in 1936.

An early power in black high school football was McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, which won every game from the start of the 1933 season going into the 1940 postseason's Magnolia Bowl against Monroe Colored High (later called Carroll High School)—part of that time with Eddie Robinson at quarterback. In 1939 the Capital City Free Workers attempted to host a black state championship game that included (then-independent) McKinley in a fundraiser for the local Lions Club that would also feature the LIALA champion, Bogalusa Central (later called Central Memorial)—with the winner to host a black national championship game on New Year's Day. However, McKinley ended up opting out of postseason play, leaving Central the overall state champion of record by default and ending any hopes of holding a national championship game (by the next season McKinley had joined the LIALA but was still ineligible for its state title because they had played too few conference games, hence the aforementioned appearance in the Magnolia Bowl instead of the state playoffs). They were finally able to capture the LIALA crown in 1942.

Year	(no classifications)
1936	New Orleans Xavier Prep
1937	New Orleans Xavier Prep
1938	Bogalusa Central
1939	Bogalusa Central
1940	New Orleans Xavier Prep

Year	Class AA	Class A
1941	New Orleans Xavier Prep	Baton Rouge Southern

Year	(no classifications)
1942	Baton Rouge McKinley
1943	Ruston Lincoln
1944*	(no champion)

Note: *—championship game not held but league also declined to declare champion

Year
1945	New Orleans Gilbert Academy	Bogalusa Central Memorial
1946	New Orleans Booker T. Washington	Bogalusa Central Memorial

Year	Class AA	Class A
1947*	Baton Rouge Southern	Bossier City Colored
1948	Ruston Lincoln	Bossier City Colored

Note: *—Class A championship determined by declaration because North Louisiana champion had no available opponents (no members of Class A were located in the southern part of the state)

Year	Class AA	Class A	Class B
1949	New Orleans Booker T. Washington	Baton Rouge Southern	Bernice Colored

Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization (1950–1969)

In 1950, after the LIALA rechristened itself as the "Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization" (LIALO), it openly worked with the LHSAA to restructure itself from a coordinating body into more of a governing body, with stronger rules and enforcement power. However, by 1951 the LIALO had already been accused by the principal of Winnfield Winn Training (later called Pinecrest) of "trying to purge certain members of vocal opposition to friendship politics;" he threatened to join with the other "purged" members to create a new high school athletic association. The LIALO was again accused by him in 1956 of selectively enforcing its rules with a tilt toward the southern part of the state, and thirty North Louisiana schools attempted to break away from the LIALO to form the "Louisiana Secondary School Association" as an alternative, competing organization. During the years 1965 and 1966, a tragic but also inspiring story arose out of DeQuincy as four members of their small, Class A-sized Grand Avenue team died in a car wreck just two hours after returning from winning the state championship game over Good Pine, 27–0. However, the team was able to pull together the next year and persevere as repeat-champs by an even larger margin of victory over Good Pine, this time 56–6. At the end of the 1967–68 school year, New Orleans St. Augustine left the LIALO to join the LHSAA as part of the process of desegregation efforts within the New South. Further accelerating the disbanding of the LIALO was the 1968 revelation that the association had never formally incorporated and was therefore technically not even a legally-recognized entity under Louisiana law—leading to questions over who exactly was running the organization and what they were using its membership fees for. This concern came to light when H. C. Ross of Crowley attempted to challenge the LIALO in court over one of its rulings but was then informed that there was no such organization to serve lawsuit papers to; Ross promptly withdrew from the LIALO and applied for admission to the LHSAA. By early December 1969, a rumor spread that the LIALO would disband with its remaining members joining the LHSAA—this, despite the difficulties that St. Aug faced when transitioning over to LHSAA rules (19 football players quickly lost eligibility). Furthermore, what ended up being the last-ever LIALO state championship game was delayed a full month until mid-January 1970, as it "had been plagued with protests, courts suits, and counter-protests." Some dialogue began between the two organizations and, by the end of the 1969–70 school year, all remaining LIALO members had moved over to the LHSAA. The LHSAA is apparently in possession of few, if any, archival records from the organization, and surviving records are otherwise scarce. In addition, in 2016 the LHSAA's offices in Baton Rouge received major damage from a flood, which could have potentially destroyed any remaining records. It is not immediately clear if Southern, which helped sustain the organization, has retained any documents concerning the LIALO (Southern appears to have at least remained distant enough from the LIALO over that time period to have avoided being pulled directly into its aforementioned legal disputes). However, there is at least some LIALO-related paperwork among the Charles B. Roussève papers maintained by the Amistad Research Center at Tulane.

Year	Class AA	Class A	Class B
1950*	New Orleans Booker T. Washington	Lake Charles W. O. Boston	Winnfield Winn Training
1951	Shreveport Booker T. Washington	Winnfield Winn Training	Haynesville Colored

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total first downs; Class B championship disputed (Winnfield Winn Training, later called Pinecrest, later claimed that it was the legitimate champion because it maintained that its scheduled championship game opponent, Lake Charles W. O. Boston, had acknowledged having too many students to participate in Class B and had not even played any conference games before being considered for South Louisiana's automatic bid to the contest—neither WOBHS nor the league is known to have been documented as having corroborated this claim, but Pinecrest is known to have refused to play the game; notably, the 1951 WOBHS annual yearbook describes its school as having won the 1950 Class A state championship instead)

Year	Class AA	Class A
1952	Shreveport Booker T. Washington	Jonesboro Colored
1953*	Monroe Carroll	Lutcher Cypress Grove
1954	Baton Rouge McKinley	Haynesville Colored
1955	Baton Rouge Capitol Avenue	Haynesville Colored
1956**	Mansfield DeSoto	Zachary Northwestern

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total penetrations; **—Class AA championship game tie broken by total yardage

Year	Class AAA	Class AA	Class A
1957	Mansfield DeSoto	Clinton East Feliciana Industrial Training	Marion Industrial
1958	Mansfield DeSoto	Lake Charles W. O. Boston	DeQuincy Grand Avenue
1959	New Orleans Landry	Bastrop Morehouse	Lillie Westside
1960	Lake Charles Washington	Rosedale Levy	Westlake Mossville
1961*	Monroe Carroll	Homer Mayfield	Shreveport Notre Dame
1962	Monroe Carroll	Monroe Richwood	Shreveport Notre Dame
1963	New Orleans St. Augustine	Monroe Richwood	Leesville Vernon
1964	Shreveport Booker T. Washington	Monroe Richwood	Angie Ray
1965	New Orleans St. Augustine	Baton Rouge Southern Lab	DeQuincy Grand Avenue
1966	New Orleans St. Augustine	West Monroe Richardson	DeQuincy Grand Avenue
1967	Marrero Lincoln	West Monroe Richardson	Leesville Vernon
1968	Monroe Carroll	Baton Rouge Southern Lab	Leesville Vernon
1969	Baton Rouge Scotlandville	Princeton	Farmerville Eastside

Note: *—Class AA championship game determined by forfeit, by Bogalusa Central Memorial

Louisiana Prep Grid Standard (1957–1959)

Lee L. Meade, Sr., a Minnesotan who would later become sports editor of The Denver Post and then help form the American Basketball Association, World Hockey Association, World TeamTennis, Major League Volleyball, and International Basketball Association sports leagues, briefly worked in Louisiana with the Lafayette Daily Advertiser and the Lake Charles American Press. While in Lake Charles he established a sports rating system that could both rank LHSAA teams and also determine possible point spreads of upcoming games, similar to what the Dunkel System and Jeff Sagarin do for various sports, most notably college football. His mathematical system, dubbed the "Louisiana Prep Grid Standard" (LPGS), was considered quite accurate by his journalistic peers. It correctly projected the results of 80% of the 1957 playoff games, including 100% of the four championship games. One of the LPGS' more notable game predictions in 1959 was that one team would beat another by a seemingly absurd point margin of 74 points; the team actually ended up winning by 75 points. In January 1960 the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate drew up a man-made postseason ranking of the top ten LHSAA Class AAA teams from 1959 to compare with the findings of the LPGS mathematical system; the two rankings ended up very similar, as all ten teams were the same with few noteworthy disagreements in the order of those ten. At the time, the Associated Press only ranked the LHSAA's Class AAA, while Meade ranked teams in all of the classifications of the LHSAA. While the season's final AP poll was announced before the LHSAA playoffs, Meade's final rankings were issued after the playoffs—and while usually matching the actual LHSAA champions, did occasionally deviate from them, much to the benefit of several Baton Rouge-area schools (and the dismay of his readers from Lake Charles High). Baton Rouge Istrouma, for example, won all LHSAA Class AAA titles between 1955 and 1959 except for 1958—but was then able to grab the top spot in Class AAA in the LPGS' 1958 final postseason ratings as well.

Year	Overall	Class AAA	Class AA	Class A	Class B
1957	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Morgan City	Baton Rouge University Lab	Delhi
1958	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Reserve Leon Godchaux	Tallulah	Vacherie St. James
1959	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Baton Rouge Istrouma	Monroe Neville	Baton Rouge Redemptorist	Vacherie St. James

Morning Advocate (1959)

Though the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate was normally content to just let the LHSAA teams determine the championships among themselves within the framework of the playoffs, shortly after the 1959 season they did issue a one-time postseason ranking of the top ten Class AAA teams to compare with the results of the Louisiana Prep Grid Standard mathematical system. The two rankings ended up "almost identical."

Year	Class AAA
1959	Baton Rouge Istrouma

Louisiana Independent School Association (1970–1991)

In 1970 twenty private schools, many of which could probably be classified as segregation academies, formed the "Louisiana Independent School Association" (LISA). By 1971 LISA had increased its membership to 54 schools. It also included at least one Arkansas school during its existence. When LISA disbanded many of its member schools joined the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools, with some joining the LHSAA.

Below is a listing of all LISA football champions.

Year	(no classifications)
1970	Amite City Valley Forge

Year	Class AA	Class A
1971	Ferriday Huntington	St. Joseph Tensas Academy
1972	Reserve Riverside	Tallulah Academy
1973	Reserve Riverside	Natchitoches Academy
1974	Clinton Silliman	Hammond Southwood
1975	Reserve Riverside	Opelousas Belmont
1976	Metairie Barthe	Gonzales East Ascension Academy
1977	Rayville Riverfield	St. Joseph Tensas Academy
1978	Hammond Southwood	St. Joseph Tensas Academy
1979	Lake Providence Briarfield	Tallulah Academy
1980	Reserve Riverside	Tallulah Academy
1981	Plain Dealing Academy	Haynesville Claiborne
1982	Amite City Valley Forge	St. Joseph Tensas Academy
1983	Reserve Riverside	Franklinton Bowling Green
1984	Reserve Riverside	West Monroe Ridgedale
1985	Reserve Riverside	Shreveport First Baptist
1986	Reserve Riverside	Plain Dealing Academy
1987	West Monroe Ridgedale	Haynesville Claiborne
1988	Bastrop Prairie View	Plain Dealing Academy
1989	New Roads False River	Lake Providence Briarfield
1990	Monroe River Oaks	Haynesville Claiborne
1991	Rayville Riverfield	Lake Providence Briarfield

Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (1988–Present)

The Mississippi Private School Association was formed in 1968, and individual Louisiana schools have been participating in it since at least 1988. When the LISA disbanded after the 1991–92 school year, a number of former LISA schools joined it. The association changed its name to the "Mississippi Association of Independent Schools" (MAIS) in 2009, and then to the "Midsouth Association of Independent Schools" in 2019 to more fully reflect its member institutions from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. As of 2020 there are thirteen MAIS schools located in Louisiana. Due to restrictions issued by the state government, Louisiana's MAIS schools were initially the only Louisiana high schools that could play football during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided that they not play their games within the borders of Louisiana.

Below is a listing of all Louisiana-based MAIS football champions (beginning with the 2019 season, classes A and AA were reorganized to reflect the winners of MAIS' eight-man football championships and, as such, is not included with this listing).

Year	Class	School
1992	A	Tallulah Academy
1996	AAA	Clinton Silliman
1997	AA	Franklinton Bowling Green
2001	AAA	Clinton Silliman
2002	AA	Amite City Oak Forest
2004	A	Haynesville Claiborne
2005	A	Monroe River Oaks
2007	A	Minden Glenbrook
2010	AA	Monroe River Oaks
2014	AAA–II	Amite City Oak Forest
2015	AAA	Clinton Silliman
2019	AAAA	Rayville Riverfield
2020	AAAA	Rayville Riverfield
2022	5A	Amite City Oak Forest

Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association (2006–2011)

The Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association (LCSAA) began competition during the 1981–82 school year, with formal championship competition between its 24 member schools coming during the 1984–85 term. Although very similar in nature to the make-up of the LISA, it differed slightly in that LISA schools were not necessarily parochial schools while LCSAA schools always were. Regardless, LISA schools did have a tendency to be Protestant-based academies, concentrated within Protestant-majority North Louisiana; LCSAA schools—also largely Protestant academies—were more often clustered in Louisiana's predominantly Catholic Acadiana region, giving its schools much fewer potential students to draw from. With smaller schools than the LISA, it initially could not sustain eleven-man football programs (although it did manage to foster six-man and eight-man football competition). It did eventually attempt to add eleven-man football as a league sport for the 2006 season, starting with four teams.

Year	(no classifications)
2006	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship
2007	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship
2008	Abbeville Lighthouse Christian Prep
2009	Breaux Bridge Christian
2010	Houma Covenant Christian
2011	Houma Covenant Christian

Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana (2012–2014)

In 2012 the LCSAA was "reformed" as the "Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana" (ACEL). Although it had more than 30 member schools in 2013, most did not field football teams. It actually featured two "divisions" for football, however, including one for eight-man football that contained 7 schools. However, after three seasons it no longer had enough schools sustaining eleven-man football teams to warrant sanctioning further championship competition and, as of the 2020 season, has not resumed sponsoring the sport. However, with five schools still fielding eight-man teams, the ACEL has been able to continue fostering competition for that particular form of the sport.

Year	(no classifications)
2012	Lafayette Acadiana Home School Athletics
2013	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship
2014	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship

Louisiana Independent Football Tournament (since 2015)

With the ACEL membership no longer fielding enough eleven-man football teams to merit additional formal championships, some remaining teams (primarily those with homeschooling backgrounds, which are able to rely on a growing number of students) went outside the association to continue participating in championship competition. They formed the "Louisiana Independent Football Tournament" (LIFT) to compete in.

Year	(no classifications)
2015	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship
2016	Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship
2017	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics
2018	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics
2019	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics
2020	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics
2021	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics
2022	Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics

State championships by school*

Wall of the John Curtis Christian School gymnasium: The school has the most football state championships in LHSAA history

Nº	School**	Municipality	Parish	State championship(s)	Season(s)	Note(s)
1	John Curtis Christian Patriots	River Ridge	Jefferson	27	1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022
2	Haynesville Golden Tornado	Haynesville	Claiborne	17	1924, 1929, 1936, 1970, 1971, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2009, 2013, 2014
3	Evangel Christian Academy Eagles	Shreveport	Caddo	14	1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2016
4	Neville Tigers	Monroe	Ouachita	12	1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1972, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015
5 (tie)	C. E. Byrd Yellow Jackets	Shreveport	Caddo	10	1914, 1915, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1949	won in 1914, 1915, and 1922 as Shreveport High
5 (tie)	Istrouma Indians	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	10	1938, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962
5 (tie)	Southern Lab Kittens	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	10	1941, 1947, 1949, 1965, 1968, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1996, 2015, 2016, 2021	won in 1941, 1947, and 1949 as Southern High
8 (tie)	Ruston Bearcats	Ruston	Lincoln	9	1925, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2023
8 (tie)	Kentwood Kangaroos	Kentwood	Tangipahoa	9	1928, 1939, 1969, 1983, 1986, 1997, 1998, 2015, 2018
8 (tie)	Lutcher Bulldogs	Lutcher	St. James	9	1975, 1978, 1983, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2022
8 (tie)	Riverside Academy Rebels	Reserve	St. John the Baptist	9	1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2016
8 (tie)	Tallulah Trojans	Tallulah	Madison	9	1932, 1933, 1934, 1946, 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961
8 (tie)	Warren Easton Eagles	New Orleans	Orleans	9	1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1942
13 (tie)	Baton Rouge Golden Bulldogs	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	8	1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1944, 1964
13 (tie)	Jesuit Blue Jays	New Orleans	Orleans	8	1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1960, 2014
13 (tie)	University Lab Cubs	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	8	1957, 1974, 1988, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021
13 (tie)	Ouachita Christian Eagles	Monroe	Ouachita	8	1985, 1997, 2000, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022
13 (tie)	West Monroe Rebels	West Monroe	Ouachita	8	1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2011
19	Oak Grove Tigers	Oak Grove	West Carroll	7	1989, 1991, 1999, 2001, 2019, 2020, 2022
20 (tie)	Acadiana Wreckin' Rams	Lafayette	Lafayette	6	2006, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020
20 (tie)	Acadiana Christian Athletics Defenders	Lafayette	Lafayette	6	2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
20 (tie)	Amite Warriors	Amite City	Tangipahoa	6	1963, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2018, 2021
20 (tie)	Christian Home Educators Fellowship Patriots	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	6	2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
20 (tie)	Destrehan Fighting Wildcats	Destrehan	St. Charles	6	1941, 1949, 1973, 2007, 2008, 2022	won in 1941 as 6-man team
20 (tie)	Edna Karr Cougars	New Orleans	Orleans	6	1993, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
20 (tie)	Hahnville Tigers	Boutte	St. Charles	6	1949, 1968, 1972, 1992, 1994, 2003
20 (tie)	Notre Dame Pioneers	Crowley	Acadia	6	1973, 1976, 2000, 2009, 2015, 2018
20 (tie)	St. Augustine Purple Knights	New Orleans	Orleans	6	1963, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1978, 1979
20 (tie)	St. James Wildcats	Vacherie	St. James	6	1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1979, 2019
30 (tie)	Ferriday Trojans	Ferriday	Concordia	5	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2019
30 (tie)	Homer Fighting Pelicans	Homer	Claiborne	5	1923, 1928, 1937, 1939, 2021
30 (tie)	Jonesboro–Hodge Tigers	Jonesboro	Jackson	5	1930, 1945, 1987, 1988, 1989	won in 1930 as Jonesboro High
30 (tie)	McKinley Panthers	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	5	1926, 1927, 1929, 1942, 1954	won in 1926 as Baton Rouge Colored High
30 (tie)	Minden Crimson Tide	Minden	Webster	5	1938, 1954, 1956, 1963, 1980
30 (tie)	Parkview Baptist Eagles	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	5	2001, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015
36 (tie)	Carroll Bulldogs	Monroe	Ouachita	4	1953, 1961, 1962, 1968
36 (tie)	Central Memorial Spartans	Bogalusa	Washington	4	1938, 1939, 1945, 1946, 1961	won in 1938 and 1939 as Central High
36 (tie)	Claiborne Academy Rebels	Haynesville	Claiborne	4	1981, 1987, 1990, 2004
36 (tie)	Kinder Yellow Jackets	Kinder	Allen	4	1967, 1978, 2013, 2015
36 (tie)	Lake Charles Wildcats	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	4	1910, 1932, 1954, 1958
36 (tie)	Lafayette Christian Academy Knights	Lafayette	Lafayette	4	2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
36 (tie)	Redemptorist Wolves	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	4	1959, 2002, 2003, 2005
36 (tie)	Richwood Rams	Monroe	Ouachita	4	1962, 1963, 1964, 1974
36 (tie)	Riverfield Academy Raiders	Rayville	Richland	4	1977, 1991, 2019, 2020
36 (tie)	St. Thomas More Catholic Cougars	Lafayette	Lafayette	4	2016, 2019, 2020, 2022
36 (tie)	Silliman Institute Wildcats	Clinton	East Feliciana	4	1974, 1996, 2001, 2015
36 (tie)	Sulphur Golden Tornadoes	Sulphur	Calcasieu	4	1943, 1944, 1946, 1965
36 (tie)	Tallulah Academy Trojans	Tallulah	Madison	4	1972, 1979, 1980, 1992
36 (tie)	Tensas Academy Chiefs	St. Joseph	Tensas	4	1971, 1977, 1978, 1982
36 (tie)	West St. John Rams	Edgard	St. John the Baptist	4	1998, 2003, 2004, 2017
36 (tie)	Xavier Prep Yellow Jackets	New Orleans	Orleans	4	1936, 1937, 1940, 1941
36 (tie)	Zachary Broncos	Zachary	East Baton Rouge	4	2015, 2017, 2018, 2021
53 (tie)	Archbishop Rummel Raiders	Metairie	Jefferson	3	2012, 2013, 2019
53 (tie)	Ascension Catholic Bulldogs	Donaldsonville	Ascension	3	1941, 1973, 1992	won in 1941 as Donaldsonville Catholic
53 (tie)	Bastrop Rams	Bastrop	Morehouse	3	1927, 2005, 2006, 2007
53 (tie)	Booker T. Washington Lions	New Orleans	Orleans	3	1946, 1949, 1950
53 (tie)	Booker T. Washington Lions	Shreveport	Caddo	3	1951, 1952, 1964
53 (tie)	Briarfield Academy Rebels	Lake Providence	East Carroll	3	1979, 1989, 1991
53 (tie)	Calvary Baptist Academy Cavaliers	Shreveport	Caddo	3	2013, 2014, 2020
53 (tie)	Carter G. Woodson Tigers	Haynesville	Claiborne	3	1951, 1954, 1955	won in 1951, 1954, and 1955 as Haynesville Colored High
53 (tie)	Clinton Eagles	Clinton	East Feliciana	3	1950, 1962, 1968
53 (tie)	DeSoto Tigers	Mansfield	DeSoto	3	1956, 1957, 1958
53 (tie)	Grand Avenue Tigers	DeQuincy	Calcasieu	3	1958, 1965, 1966
53 (tie)	Jennings Bulldogs	Jennings	Jefferson Davis	3	1908, 1939, 1992
53 (tie)	Lincoln Black Bears	Ruston	Lincoln	3	1928, 1943, 1948
53 (tie)	Many Tigers	Many	Sabine	3	2014, 2020, 2022
53 (tie)	Oak Forest Academy Yellow Jackets	Amite City	Tangipahoa	3	2002, 2014, 2022
53 (tie)	Plain Dealing Academy Lions	Plain Dealing	Bossier	3	1981, 1986, 1988
53 (tie)	Port Sulphur Bronchos	Port Sulphur	Plaquemines	3	1979, 1981, 2002
53 (tie)	River Oaks Mustangs	Monroe	Ouachita	3	1990, 2005, 2010
53 (tie)	St. Charles Catholic Comets	LaPlace	St. John the Baptist	3	2011, 2021, 2022
53 (tie)	Salmen Spartans	Slidell	St. Tammany	3	1994, 1995, 2000
53 (tie)	Vernon Lions	Leesville	Vernon	3	1963, 1967, 1968
53 (tie)	W. O. Boston Panthers	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	3	1950, 1958, 1972
75 (tie)	Arcadia Hornets	Arcadia	Bienville	2	1940, 1965
75 (tie)	Baker Buffaloes	Baker	East Baton Rouge	2	1947, 1950
75 (tie)	Bogalusa Lumberjacks	Bogalusa	Washington	2	1947, 1969
75 (tie)	Bossier Bearkats	Bossier City	Bossier	2	1942, 1948
75 (tie)	Bowling Green Buccaneers	Franklinton	Washington	2	1983, 1997
75 (tie)	Buras Wildcats	Buras	Plaquemines	2	1966, 1990
75 (tie)	Carencro Bears	Lafayette	Lafayette	2	1992, 2020
75 (tie)	Catholic Bears	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	2	2015, 2017, 2020, 2021
75 (tie)	Catholic Panthers	New Iberia	Iberia	2	1962, 2017
75 (tie)	Charlotte A. Mitchell Grizzly Bears	Bossier City	Bossier	2	1947, 1948	won in 1947 and 1948 as Bossier City Colored High
75 (tie)	Covenant Christian Academy Lions	Houma	Terrebonne	2	2010, 2011
75 (tie)	Delhi Bears	Delhi	Richland	2	1951, 1957
75 (tie)	East St. John Wildcats	Reserve	St. John the Baptist	2	1958, 1980	won in 1958 as Leon Godchaux High
75 (tie)	E. D. White Catholic Cardinals	Thibodaux	Lafourche	2	1968, 1969
75 (tie)	Eunice Bobcats	Eunice	St. Landry	2	1982, 2018
75 (tie)	Holy Cross Tigers	New Orleans	Orleans	2	1945, 1963
75 (tie)	John Ehret Patriots	Marrero	Jefferson	2	1981, 1985
75 (tie)	Landry Memorial Tigers	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	2	1942, 1965
75 (tie)	Lockport Pirates	Lockport	Lafourche	2	1963, 1964
75 (tie)	Logansport Tigers	Logansport	DeSoto	2	1995, 2016
75 (tie)	Loyola College Prep Flyers	Shreveport	Caddo	2	1967, 1976	won in 1967 and 1976 as Jesuit High
75 (tie)	Morgan City Tigers	Morgan City	St. Mary	2	1923, 1957
75 (tie)	Notre Dame Bloodhounds	Shreveport	Caddo	2	1961, 1962
75 (tie)	Pinecrest Yellow Jackets	Winnfield	Winn	2	1950, 1951	won in 1950 and 1951 as Winn Training
75 (tie)	Rayville Hornets	Rayville	Richland	2	1929, 1931
75 (tie)	Richardson Bears	West Monroe	Ouachita	2	1966, 1967
75 (tie)	Ridgedale Academy Raiders	West Monroe	Ouachita	2	1984, 1987
75 (tie)	St. Martinville Tigers	St. Martinville	St. Martin	2	1981, 1984
75 (tie)	St. Mary's Catholic Tigers	Natchitoches	Natchitoches	2	1977, 2015
75 (tie)	Second Ward Eagles	Edgard	St. John the Baptist	2	1971, 1972
75 (tie)	Slidell Tigers	Slidell	St. Tammany	2	1944, 1945
75 (tie)	South Lafourche Tarpons	Cut Off	Lafourche	2	1971, 1977
75 (tie)	South Plaquemines Hurricanes	Buras	Plaquemines	2	2007, 2008
75 (tie)	Southwood Academy Spartans	Hammond	Tangipahoa	2	1974, 1978
75 (tie)	Springhill Bulldogs	Springhill	Webster	2	1952, 1985
75 (tie)	Sterlington Panthers	Monroe	Ouachita	2	2016, 2021
75 (tie)	Union Parish Fightin' Farmers	Farmerville	Union	2	2001, 2013	won in 2001 as Farmerville High
75 (tie)	Valley Forge Academy Rebels	Amite City	Tangipahoa	2	1970, 1982
75 (tie)	Vermilion Catholic Eagles	Abbeville	Vermilion	2	2003, 2013
75 (tie)	Vinton Lions	Vinton	Calcasieu	2	1935, 1936
115 (tie)	Acadiana Home School Athletics Commandos	Lafayette	Lafayette	1	2012
115 (tie)	Airline Vikings	Bossier City	Bossier	1	1967
115 (tie)	Alcée Fortier Tarpons	New Orleans	Orleans	1	1948
115 (tie)	Archbishop Shaw Eagles	Marrero	Jefferson	1	1987
115 (tie)	Ascension Episcopal Blue Gators	Youngsville	Lafayette	1	2016
115 (tie)	Assumption Mustangs	Napoleonville	Assumption	1	1964
115 (tie)	Belle Chasse Cardinals	Belle Chasse	Plaquemines	1	2008
115 (tie)	Belmont Academy Eagles	Opelousas	St. Landry	1	1975
115 (tie)	Breaux Bridge Tigers	Breaux Bridge	St. Martin	1	2005
115 (tie)	Breaux Bridge Christian Academy Knights	Breaux Bridge	St. Martin	1	2009
115 (tie)	Broadmoor Buccaneers	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	1	1966
115 (tie)	Brother Martin Crusaders	New Orleans	Orleans	1	1971
115 (tie)	Capitol Golden Lions	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	1	1955	won in 1955 as Capitol Avenue High
115 (tie)	Captain Shreve Gators	Shreveport	Caddo	1	1973
115 (tie)	Catholic Hornets	New Roads	Pointe Coupee	1	1978
115 (tie)	Cecilia Bulldogs	Cecilia	St. Martin	1	1995
115 (tie)	Central Wildcats	Central	East Baton Rouge	1	1966
115 (tie)	Columbia Crimson Tide	Columbia	Caldwell	1	1937
115 (tie)	Coushatta Choctaws	Coushatta	Red River	1	1992
115 (tie)	Covington Fighting Lions	Covington	St. Tammany	1	1976
115 (tie)	Crowley Fighting Gents	Crowley	Acadia	1	1989
115 (tie)	Cypress Grove Bobcats	Lutcher	St. James	1	1953
115 (tie)	Donaldsonville Tigers	Donaldsonville	Ascension	1	1954
115 (tie)	Dunham Tigers	St. George	East Baton Rouge	1	2004
115 (tie)	East Tigers	Clinton	East Feliciana	1	1957	won in 1957 as East Feliciana Industrial Training
115 (tie)	East Ascension Academy Broncos	Gonzales	Ascension	1	1976
115 (tie)	East Jefferson Warriors	Metairie	Jefferson	1	2013
115 (tie)	Eastside Demons	Farmerville	Union	1	1969
115 (tie)	Elliot Giants	Bernice	Union	1	1949	won in 1949 as Bernice Colored High
115 (tie)	Elton Indians	Elton	Jefferson Davis	1	1970
115 (tie)	Fair Park Indians	Shreveport	Caddo	1	1952
115 (tie)	False River Academy Gators	New Roads	Pointe Coupee	1	1989
115 (tie)	First Baptist Academy Patriots	Shreveport	Caddo	1	1985
115 (tie)	Franklinton Demons	Franklinton	Washington	1	2010
115 (tie)	Gilbert Demons	Gilbert	Franklin	1	1975
115 (tie)	Gilbert Academy Tigers	New Orleans	Orleans	1	1945
115 (tie)	Glenbrook Academy Apaches	Minden	Webster	1	2007
115 (tie)	Greensburg Tigers	Greensburg	St. Helena	1	1958
115 (tie)	Hammond Tornadoes	Hammond	Tangipahoa	1	1970
115 (tie)	Hanson Memorial Tigers	Franklin	St. Mary	1	1976
115 (tie)	Haughton Buccaneers	Haughton	Bossier	1	1977
115 (tie)	Holy Name Blue Knights	New Orleans	Orleans	1	1955
115 (tie)	Huntington Hounds	Ferriday	Concordia	1	1971
115 (tie)	Iota Bulldogs	Iota	Acadia	1	1999
115 (tie)	Jackson Wahas	Jonesboro	Jackson	1	1952	won in 1952 as Jonesboro Colored High
115 (tie)	Jefferson College Blue Backs	Convent	St. James	1	1907
115 (tie)	Kenner Thunderbolts	Kenner	Jefferson	1	1952
115 (tie)	L. B. Landry Buccaneers	New Orleans	Orleans	1	1959
115 (tie)	LaGrange Gators	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	1	1938
115 (tie)	Landry–Walker Prep Charging Buccaneers	New Orleans	Orleans	1	2016
115 (tie)	Larose–Cut Off Bulldogs	Larose	Lafourche	1	1965
115 (tie)	Lighthouse Christian Prep Eagles	Abbeville	Vermilion	1	2008
115 (tie)	Lincoln Trojans	Marrero	Jefferson	1	1967
115 (tie)	Livonia Wildcats	Livonia	Pointe Coupee	1	2014
115 (tie)	Madison Prep Academy Chargers	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	1	2020
115 (tie)	Mangham Dragons	Mangham	Richland	1	1956
115 (tie)	Mansfield Wolverines	Mansfield	DeSoto	1	1991
115 (tie)	Marion Industrial Lions	Marion	Union	1	1957
115 (tie)	Mayfield Raiders	Homer	Claiborne	1	1961
115 (tie)	Morehouse Tigers	Bastrop	Morehouse	1	1959
115 (tie)	Mossville Pirates	Westlake	Calcasieu	1	1960
115 (tie)	Natchitoches Red Devils	Natchitoches	Natchitoches	1	1969
115 (tie)	Natchitoches Academy Trojans	Natchitoches	Natchitoches	1	1973
115 (tie)	Northwestern Braves	Zachary	East Baton Rouge	1	1956
115 (tie)	Oberlin Tigers	Oberlin	Allen	1	1961
115 (tie)	Opelousas Catholic Vikings	Opelousas	St. Landry	1	1974
115 (tie)	Ouachita Parish Lions	Monroe	Ouachita	1	1989
115 (tie)	Pineville Rebels	Pineville	Rapides	1	1960
115 (tie)	Ponchatoula Green Wave	Ponchatoula	Tangipahoa	1	1940
115 (tie)	Port Barre Red Devils	Port Barre	St. Landry	1	2002
115 (tie)	Prairie View Academy Spartans	Bastrop	Morehouse	1	1988
115 (tie)	Princeton Dragons	Princeton	Bossier	1	1969
115 (tie)	Ridgewood Prep Golden Eagles	Metairie	Jefferson	1	1964
115 (tie)	Sacred Heart Trojans	Ville Platte	Evangeline	1	1967
115 (tie)	Sam Barthe Hornets	Metairie	Jefferson	1	1976
115 (tie)	Scotlandville Hornets	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	1	1969
115 (tie)	South Terrebonne Gators	Bourg	Terrebonne	1	1991
115 (tie)	Tara Trojans	Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge	1	1974
115 (tie)	Thibodaux Tigers	Thibodaux	Lafourche	1	1991
115 (tie)	Thomas A. Levy Tigers	Rosedale	Iberville	1	1960
115 (tie)	Vandebilt Catholic Fightin' Terriers	Houma	Terrebonne	1	1959	won in 1959 as Houma Central Catholic High
115 (tie)	Washington Indians	Lake Charles	Calcasieu	1	1960
115 (tie)	Waterproof Tigers	Waterproof	Tensas	1	1943
115 (tie)	Welsh Greyhounds	Welsh	Jefferson Davis	1	2017
115 (tie)	Wesley Ray Eagles	Angie	Washington	1	1964
115 (tie)	West Feliciana Saints	St. Francisville	West Feliciana	1	2017
115 (tie)	West Jefferson Buccaneers	Harvey	Jefferson	1	1970
115 (tie)	Westgate Tigers	New Iberia	Iberia	1	2021
115 (tie)	Westlake Rams	Westlake	Calcasieu	1	1953
115 (tie)	Westside Tigers	Lillie	Union	1	1959
115 (tie)	White Castle Bulldogs	White Castle	Iberville	1	2010
115 (tie)	Winnfield Tigers	Winnfield	Winn	1	1982
115 (tie)	Woodlawn Knights	Shreveport	Caddo	1	1968
115 (tie)	Wossman Wildcats	Monroe	Ouachita	1	1986

Notes: *—although MAIS championships are not, strictly speaking, "state" championships per se, those titles are included with these totals for comparative purposes; **—most recent school name is used, when available

National championships by school

Several Louisiana high schools have also won national championships.

The state of Louisiana itself actually had a direct impact on several early high school national crowns as the Louisiana Sports Association hosted a series of games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge called the "National High School Championship" in 1938 and 1939, the latter of which included an appearance by Louisiana's own Baton Rouge High. McKinley had the chance to host a similar national championship game for black schools but, after deciding against participating in the postseason, went to watch the Baton Rouge High game instead.

Rebel Stadium at West Monroe High School: The school has the most football national championships in LHSAA history

Nº	School	Municipality	Parish	National championship(s)	Season(s)
1	Acadiana Christian Athletics Defenders	Lafayette	Lafayette	4	2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
2	West Monroe Rebels	West Monroe	Ouachita	2	1998, 2000
3 (tie)	Bogalusa Lumberjacks	Bogalusa	Washington	1	1969
3 (tie)	Evangel Christian Academy Eagles	Shreveport	Caddo	1	1999
3 (tie)	John Curtis Christian Patriots	River Ridge	Jefferson	1	2012
3 (tie)	Ruston Bearcats	Ruston	Lincoln	1	1990

Team and coaching superlatives

Nineteen different schools in the parish of East Baton Rouge have won 72 total titles, including 14 different schools within the city limits of Baton Rouge that have won 63 total titles (this city total does not include, however, 4 championships forfeited by Catholic High and Southern Lab—or any won by Central High or Dunham, which used Baton Rouge postal ZIP Codes at the time but are now considered part of the newly-incorporated cities of Central and St. George respectively).

Curtis is the school with the most championships (27), and Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics is the school with the most consecutive championships (6). Haynesville is the public school with the most championships (17)—and most consecutive LHSAA championships (4), tied with Ferriday and Edna Karr of New Orleans (although Istrouma as a public school actually won 5 consecutive crowns when counting its 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1959 LHSAA titles along with its top-place finish in the 1958 Louisiana Prep Grid Standard final postseason rankings). Istrouma is the school with the most championships within the LHSAA's highest classification (9). Curtis is now a member of the New Orleans Catholic League, a district within the LHSAA that is well-represented on the listings above.

Long-term successful teams like Curtis, Haynesville, and Istrouma are known for having programs with extensive family ties. Curtis' head coach, John T. Curtis Jr.—the second-winningest head coach in high school football history—is the son of the school's founder and has had numerous family members serve as assistant coaches or players for the team. He has also won more state championships than any other coach in the country. Haynesville has had a very successful transition of its head coaching position from Alton "Red" Franklin to his son, David. Istrouma similarly had a very successful transition of its head coaching position from Ellis A. "Little Fuzzy" Brown to his twin brother, James E. "Big Fuzzy" Brown. In addition, Robert Andrew "Racer" Holstead, Sr., formerly the winningest high school football head coach in the state, coached Tallulah High to four LHSAA football championships, Tallulah Academy to three LISA championships and one MAIS championship—and even Plaquemine to one LHSAA basketball championship; recently his grandson, Chad Mahaffey, also coached University Lab to four state championships. Like Holstead, Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship (LCSAA, ACEL, and LIFT), Easton (Times–Picayune, National Farm and Live Stock Show, and LHSAA), and Southern Lab (LIALA, LIALO, and LHSAA) have also won trophies from three different sources.

Records from schools and coaches with documented all-time won–loss standings, however, indicate that having programs among the winningest in the state does not necessarily always correlate with earning state championships.

Nº	School	Years	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	State championship(s)
1	Haynesville	1907–2019	828	299	34	.728	17
2	Monroe Neville	1931–2019	766	256	20	.745	12
3	New Orleans Jesuit	1895–2019	725	353	34	.667	8
4	Shreveport/Shreveport Byrd	1905–2019	655	423	35	.604	9
5	Winnfield	1909–2019	603	442	36	.574	1
6	River Ridge John Curtis Christian*	1969–2019	592	66	6	.896	26
7	Lutcher*	1945–2019	581	261	14	.687	8
8	Sulphur	1930–2019	573	344	12	.623	4
9	Oak Grove	1928–2019	572	322	10	.638	5
10	Reserve Leon Godchaux/East St. John	1924–2019	541	370	15	.592	2
11	Crowley Notre Dame	1967–2019	533	127	3	.806	6
12	Vacherie St. James*	1950–2019	502	291	22	.629	6
13	Baton Rouge University Lab*	1956–2019	482	213	2	.693	7
14	Leesville	1910–2019	469	436	17	.518	0
15	Thibodaux E. D. White Catholic*	1950–2019	450	305	17	.594	2
16	Thibodaux*	1950–2019	374	306	14	.549	1
17	Monroe Ouachita Christian	1977–2019	359	156	0	.697	7
18	New Orleans Brother Martin	1969–2019	345	212	5	.618	1
19	Shreveport Evangel Christian	1989–2019	330	82	0	.801	14
20	Baton Rouge Episcopal	1970–2019	284	247	3	.535	0

Note: *—although school is known to have participated in football as a varsity-level sport prior to years listed, records for those seasons are not fully documented

Nº	Coach	School(s)	Years	Wins	Losses	Tie(s)	Pct.	State championship(s)
1	John T. Curtis Jr.	River Ridge John Curtis Christian	51	592	66	6	.892	26
2	Jim Hightower	New Roads Catholic	46	429	128	1	.771	3
		Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic
3 (tie)	Red Franklin	Haynesville	35	365	76	8	.822	11
3 (tie)	Lewis Cook	Rayne	34	365	84	0	.812	5
		Crowley
		Crowley Notre Dame
5	Don Shows	Farmerville	32	345	78	0	.817	8
		Jonesboro–Hodge
		Pineville
		West Monroe
6	Vic Dalrymple	Oak Grove	32	320	99	0	.763	4
7	Dale Weiner	Plaquemine St. John	35	317	109	0	.744	1
		St. George Trafton
		New Roads Catholic
		Baton Rouge Catholic
8	Racer Holstead	Tallulah	41	310	155	8	.664	8
		Tallulah Academy
9	Richard McCloskey	Franklin Hanson Memorial	39	286	141	6	.667	1
10	Hank Tierney	Marrero Shaw	33	281	117	0	.706	1
		Harvey West Jefferson
		Ponchatoula
		Marrero Shaw
11	Frank Monica	Lutcher	29	277	84	0	.767	2
		Reserve Riverside
		New Orleans Jesuit
		LaPlace St. Charles Catholic
12	Dee Faircloth	Vidalia	45	274	197	6	.571	0
13	Dutton Wall	Port Sulphur	38	273	153	2	.638	0
		Welsh
		Ville Platte Sacred Heart
14	Johnny Buck	Kinder	36	271	132	7	.670	2
		Opelousas Catholic
15	Hoss Garrett	Arcadia	39	270	122	19	.680	3
		Ruston
16	Tim Detillier	LaPlace St. Charles Catholic	30	266	112	0	.703	4
		Lutcher
17	David Currier	Kentwood	31	264	112	0	.702	2
		Franklinton Bowling Green
18	Charlie Brown	Monroe Neville	30	263	66	6	.794	3
19	Joe Keller	Reserve Leon Godchaux	38	262	73	15	.770	1
20	Lewis Murray	Bogalusa	35	259	123	7	.675	1
		Franklinton Bowling Green

See also

• List of Alabama High School Athletic Association championships
• List of Arkansas state high school football champions
• List of California state high school football champions
• List of Missouri state high school football champions
• List of PIAA football state champions
• West Virginia High School Football State Championships and playoff history
• High School Football National Championship