Caddo Parish School Closings Today — Live Status & Delays (Louisiana)

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How Caddo Parish School Closings Are Announced

Every closure or delay for Caddo Parish Public Schools (CPPS) originates with the superintendent’s office, which weighs three inputs before making a call: overnight road-condition reports from parish and city crews, building inspections confirming heat, water, and power are working at each campus, and guidance from the National Weather Service’s Shreveport-Bossier forecast office. Superintendent Keith Burton’s administration has generally favored erring on the side of caution for ice, since a single untreated overpass can strand buses on rural routes for hours.

The confirmed decision is published first to the district’s Live Feed page on caddoschools.org, which is typically the fastest source during a fast-moving event, and is mirrored moments later through the district’s automated phone, text, and email alert system for enrolled families. Because CPPS is the largest of the four districts this page tracks, its decision is often — but not always — a leading indicator for what neighboring Bossier, DeSoto, and Webster parish boards decide later that morning; each of those boards still makes an independent call based on its own road conditions.

Weather Risks That Trigger Caddo Parish School Closures

• Ice storms: The Ark-La-Tex region has little road de-icing equipment, so even a light glaze on bridges, overpasses, and rural routes can make bus travel unsafe for days after a storm passes.
• Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes: Northwest Louisiana sits in an active severe-weather corridor each spring, with damaging wind, hail, and tornado warnings capable of triggering early dismissals or closures.
• Flash flooding: Heavy rainfall can flood low-lying roads and bus routes across the parish’s rural areas faster than storm drains can clear.
• Extreme cold and burst-pipe damage: Hard freezes have knocked out heat, water pressure, or power at individual campuses in recent winters, sometimes keeping specific schools closed even after roads clear parish-wide.
• Extreme summer heat: Prolonged heat advisories can affect outdoor activities, athletics, and early dismissal decisions during the hottest stretches of the school year.
• Hurricane remnants: Tropical systems that track inland from the Gulf can bring heavy rain and wind gusts to Northwest Louisiana well after landfall, occasionally prompting precautionary closures.

Frequently Asked Questions

What time of day does CPPS usually decide on a closure?

When a winter storm is forecast well in advance and conditions are already clear the evening before, CPPS often announces by early evening so families can plan ahead. When a system is still developing overnight, the district waits until road crews and building staff can do a first-light inspection, and the call typically comes before the first buses are scheduled to run.

What’s the difference between a closure and a delay in Caddo Parish?

A closure cancels in-person classes across the district for the day; CPPS has the option to shift to a virtual learning day rather than lose instructional time outright. A delay keeps the school day on the calendar but pushes the first bell back by a set number of hours, giving road crews time to treat the worst stretches and letting temperatures climb above freezing before students head out.

Can a single Caddo Parish school close while the rest of the parish stays open?

Yes. Most closure decisions apply to every CPPS campus at once, but the district has closed individual schools separately when a localized problem — a burst pipe, a water pressure failure, or storm damage to a specific building — makes that one campus or a small nearby cluster unsafe, even while every other school in the parish operates normally.

How does CPPS’s closure decision affect Bossier, DeSoto, and Webster parish schools?

It doesn’t automatically. Bossier Parish Schools, the DeSoto Parish School Board, and the Webster Parish School Board each run their own evaluation of local roads and conditions, so a Caddo Parish closure is not a guarantee that neighboring parishes will follow suit, and vice versa. This page checks all four districts separately rather than assuming one follows the other.

How often does this page refresh?

The status checker runs on a 15-minute cycle under normal conditions and tightens to every 5 minutes once an active weather alert is in effect for the parish, so there’s no need to keep manually reloading the page.

Why do some Caddo Parish schools stay closed after the roads are already clear?

Ice and winter storms have occasionally damaged heating, water, or power systems at individual Caddo Parish campuses. In those cases the district has kept the affected schools closed for repairs even after most of the parish returned to normal, while unaffected schools reopened on schedule.

Caddo Parish Public Schools (CPPS) — School Roster

High Schools

• C.E. Byrd High School
• Caddo Parish Magnet High School
• Captain Shreve High School
• Green Oaks Performing Arts Academy
• Huntington High School
• North Caddo High School
• Northwood High School
• Southwood High School
• Woodlawn High School
• Booker T. Washington New Technology High School
• Caddo Virtual Academy

Middle Schools

• Caddo Middle Career & Technology School
• Caddo Parish Middle Magnet School
• Donnie Bickham Middle School
• Fair Park Middle School
• Linear/Northside Middle School
• Ridgewood Middle School
• Youree Drive Middle AP Magnet School

K-8 Schools

• Broadmoor STEM Academy
• Herndon Magnet School
• J.S. Clark Elementary/6th Grade Academy
• Keithville Elementary/Middle School
• North Caddo Elementary/Middle Magnet School
• Turner Elementary/6th Grade Academy
• Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle School

Elementary Schools

• A.C. Steere Elementary School
• Atkins Technology Elementary School
• Blanchard Elementary School
• Bethune/Oak Park Elementary
• Caddo Heights Math & Science Elementary
• Cherokee Park Elementary School
• Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School
• Creswell Elementary School
• E.B. Williams Stoner Hill Elementary School
• Eden Gardens Fundamental Elementary School
• Eighty-First Street ECE
• Fairfield Elementary Magnet School
• Forest Hill Elementary School
• Judson Fundamental Elementary School
• Midway Elementary Professional Development School
• Mooringsport Elementary School
• North Highlands Elementary School
• Northside Elementary School
• Pine Grove Elementary School
• Queensborough Elementary School
• Riverside Elementary School
• Shreve Island Elementary School
• South Highlands Elementary/Magnet
• Southern Hills Elementary School
• Summer Grove Elementary School
• Summerfield Elementary School
• Sunset Acres Elementary School
• University Elementary School
• Werner Park Elementary School
• Westwood Elementary School

Note: Caddo Parish operates roughly 58–59 total campuses. This roster reflects the schools confirmed from official and district-sourced listings; consult caddoschools.org for the complete, current directory.