Briarfield Academy

Briarfield Academy is a non-sectarian, private school admitting pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade students. It is located on Riddle Lane in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. The school has more than 180 students.

History
The school was founded as a segregation academy in 1970 after a federal court ordered the racial integration of East Carroll Parish public schools. This was 16 years after the US Supreme Court had ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

When it first opened, the school enrolled 400 students in kindergarten through 8th grade. By the end of 1970, Briarfield Academy enrolled 565 students at two campuses. Many of the Briarfield Academy's teachers in the early years were former employees of the public schools system. They resigned and took pay cuts to avoid having to teach in racially integrated classrooms.

Athletics
Briarfield Academy is known for its success in athletics

 8-Man Football   Girls' Basketball   Fast Pitch Softball 
 * 3 State Championships in 4 years in football while being Runner-Up in 2022 under Coach Beau Travis’s tenure.
 * Coach Cherie Morara has coached two state championship teams in 2020 and 2022.
 * Briarfield’s Softball has won state championships in 2019, 2022 and 2023

Championships
Football championships Basketball championships Softball championships
 * (3) LISA Football: 1979, 1989, 1991
 * (3) MAIS Football: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 Runner-Up
 * (2) Girls Basketball: 2020, 2022
 * (1) Boys' Basketball: 2024
 * (3) MAIS Softball: 2019, 2022, 2023