Draft:District 1-5A (LHSAA)

District 1-5A in the LHSAA is a high school sports league in the Greater Shreveport area.

History
Since 2000, District 1-5A has consisted of teams from North Louisiana, especially the Shreveport area. From 2001-2004, the Shreveport-Bossier area was represented by two districts in Class 5A. However, during the 2005-07 classification cycle, all of North Louisiana was represented by one district. The LHSAA passed a rule in 2005 designed to limit schools with low enrollments playing "up" in class, believing that football powers such as John Curtis Christian School and Evangel Christian Academy were using 4A and 5A status, respectively, to attract students to their schools. Curtis was dropped to 2A in 2005, and Evangel to 1A before moving up to 2A in 2007. This affected District 1-5A by forcing Evangel out of 5A. However, at its January 2012 convention, the LHSAA approved a new proposal by the principal of Jesuit which allowed schools to play up from their enrollment-based classification by one class, effective with the 2013-14 school year. In the following classification cycle, Evangel played up to Class 3A. Effective with the 2015-16 school year, schools could play up to any classification. Therefore, Evangel made the decision to play up to Class 5A and return to District 1-5A. Evangel left District 1-5A after the 2018-19 school year. However, for the 2024-26 classification, Evangel made the decision to return to Class 5A and were placed in District 1-5A.

Current members (effective through 2024-26 school year)

 * Airline (2005-)
 * Benton (2019–)
 * C. E. Byrd (2005–)
 * Captain Shreve (2007–)
 * Evangel Christian (2001–2004; 2015–2018; 2024-)
 * Haughton (2011–)
 * Huntington (2001-2008; 2024-)
 * Natchitoches Central (2001-2010; 2019-)
 * Parkway (2011-)

Former members

 * Ouachita Parish (2007-2010) (returned to Monroe area-based district)
 * Pineville (2009-2010) (moved to Monroe area-based district)
 * Ruston (2001-2008) (returned to Monroe area-based district)
 * West Monroe (2005-2010) (returned to Monroe area-based district)
 * Southwood (1991–2023) (dropped to 4A)

Football champions since 1991
Bold indicates that the team won the state championship. Italic indicates that the team was state runner-up.


 * Evangel (10) &mdash; 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
 * C. E. Byrd (9) &mdash; 1993, 1996, 1997, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021
 * Airline (6) &mdash; 1991, 1992, 1998, 2012, 2019, 2022
 * West Monroe (6) &mdash; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Captain Shreve (3) &mdash; 2019, 2021, 2023
 * Parkway (3) &mdash; 2012, 2013, 2015
 * Natchitoches Central (2) &mdash; 1994, 1995
 * Southwood (1) &mdash; 1991

In addition, the following teams have played for the state championship without winning district:
 * 2013: C.E. Byrd

The state championships won by District 1-5A:


 * West Monroe: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Evangel: 1999, 2001, 2016
 * C.E. Byrd: 2020

Highest classification basketball state champions

 * C.E. Byrd (2) &mdash; 1994, 1997
 * Ouachita Parish (1) &mdash; 2009