History behind Rueben McCall Senior High School forgotten.

It seems the history behind Rueben McCall Senior High School in Tallulah, Louisiana has been forgotten. Rueben McCall Senior High School.

2 two story buildings were built for Rueben McCall Senior High School in 1964 during the 1964-1965 school year. Rueben McCall Senior High School held classes for students in grades 8 through 12. Reuben McCall Senior High School was also known as Reuben McCall High School and McCall High School.

Reuben McCall Senior High School was an all black high school in Tallulah prior to racial integration. Integration never really happened in Tallulah, Louisiana. Although the town had barely 10,000 people, Madison Parish School Board made a decision to keep both Tallulah High School (the former white high school) and Reuben McCall Senior High School open, with students having the right to choose either high school.

Integration was too much for a number of whites in Tallulah and the majority of white students soon left the public schools for Tallulah Academy. Eventually both public high schools were majority black. No white students chose to attend Reuben McCall Senior High School and only a handful of black students chose to go to Tallulah High School at first.

In 2001, the all black Thomastown High School was closed and merged into Reuben McCall Senior High School by Madison Parish School Board. Thomastown Elementary School merged into Tallulah Primary School.

Louisiana State Legislature passed bill RS 17:3229 (§3229) that allowed for the consolidation of Tallulah High School and Reuben McCall Senior High School into Northeast Delta Learning Center in 2004. Pupil expenditures was $1,735 per students.

Madison Parish School Board could no longer keep both high schools open by 2005. Both campuses needed replacement buildings and enrollment was continuing to decline so Rueben McCall Senior High School closed in 2005. Rueben McCall Senior High School had operated for 40 years at the time of its closure.

For one year the new school used the buildings and grounds of Rueben McCall Senior High School before moving to a new facility built along I-20 south of town.

Today Rueben McCall Senior High School sits abandoned in sprawling ruins. The campus was ultimately boarded up. The school has been vandalized overtime. Rueben McCall Senior High School will not reopen due to lack of local funding and declining enrollment in the Madison Parish School District.

Rueben McCall Senior High School is located at 800 Wyche Street, Tallulah, Louisiana, US 71282.