What is the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts?
The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) is the preeminent state supported residential high school with competitive admissions for Louisiana's high-achieving, highly-motivated students.  Students apply during either their freshman or sophomore year for the opportunity to attend the Louisiana School for their final two or three years of high school.  Consideration is also given to students who apply only to attend LSMSA for their senior year.  As a public school, there is no tuition and only a nominal room and board fee that can be reduced or waived (Fee Waiver Reduction Form). Established by the Louisiana state legislature in 1982, the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts belongs to an expanding group of state-supported, residential high schools founded to serve the academic, artistic, and creative needs of many of the state's best students.  

What Can LSMSA do for You?
LSMSA remains unique among the nation's public residential schools in offering a core curriculum of study in math, science, the humanities, and the creative and performing arts.  The accelerated curriculum includes traditional college-level courses as well as specialized electives and opportunities for independent study and research.  Since the first class commencement in 1985, more than 4,200 graduates have been prepared for success in college, ultimately taking positions of leadership and service in a variety of careers throughout Louisiana, the nation, and even internationally.  Graduates from the class of 2010 earned 10.8 million in merit-based scholarships plus 1 million in TOPS.   Recent graduates enrolled in the following schools:
 

Stanford University Texas A & M Florida Institute of Technology New York University Middlebury College Morehouse College Agnes Scott College University of Texas - Austin University of Wisconsin - Madison Louisiana Tech University  U.S. Air Force Academy Mount Holyoke College Yale University Louisiana State University Tulane University Pratt Art Institute University of New Orleans Cambridge University (England) Louisiana Tech University Oglethorpe University Dillard University

Boston University Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology Savannah College of Art & Design Princeton University North Carolina State University Texas Christian University Loyola University Centenary College Georgia Tech Oberlin College Pepperdine College Fordham University Howard University University of Louisiana - Lafayette Northwestern State University Southeastern LA University Hendrix College Vanderbilt University Xavier University Ohio State University Tokyo International Univ. (Japan)

How Can I Find Out More About LSMSA?
You can begin by exploring LSMSA's website.  Take a virtual tour of the campus, look over the course catalog, and read about some of the faculty, staff, and students who make LSMSA such an outstanding school.  Feel free to contact the school by mail, email, or phone at:

Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
715 University Parkway  
Natchitoches, LA 71457
1-800-259-3173 or (318) 357-2555
admissions@lsmsa.edu 

"The mission of the Louisiana School is to foster in its young scholars lifelong growth toward reaching individual potentialities and toward finding places of work and service in a global society through the examination and exchange of ideas in a community of learners."