Editing Ruston, Louisiana (section)

== Education ==

=== Primary and secondary education ===

[[State school|Public schools]] are part of the [[Lincoln Parish School Board|Lincoln Parish School System]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lincolnschools.org/about.html |title=LPSB Overvier |access-date=2017-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228182424/http://www.lincolnschools.org/about.html |archive-date=2017-12-28 |url-status=dead|website= Lincoln Parish Schools }}</ref> Eight of the twelve Lincoln Parish Schools are located in Ruston. Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center operates the parish's preschool program in Ruston. Glen View Elementary School and Hillcrest Elementary School teach kindergarten through the second grade. Cypress Springs Elementary School and Ruston Elementary School teach third grade through fifth grade. I. A. Lewis School teaches only sixth grade, and Ruston Junior High School teaches seventh and eighth grades. [[Ruston High School]] teaches ninth through twelfth grades.

Located on Louisiana Tech's campus in Ruston, [[A. E. Phillips Laboratory School]] offers kindergarten through eighth grade.

Ruston is home to a few private schools. [[Cedar Creek School]] and [[Bethel Christian School (Ruston, Louisiana)|Bethel Christian School]] are college preparatory schools that offer preschool through twelfth grade. [[New Living Word School]] also offers preschool through twelfth grade. Montessori School of Ruston offers preschool through eighth grade.

Lorraine Nobles Howard Education Center, known as Howard School, is an alternative school for the residents of the Louisiana Methodist Children's Home in Ruston.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.lmch.org/howard-school-ruston/ |title = Howard School &#124; LUMCFS &#124; Ruston, Louisiana &#124; Top Gains School}}</ref>

=== Higher education ===

[[Louisiana Tech University]], a national research university, dominates the city of Ruston, providing the city with its distinctive [[college town]] character. [[Grambling State University]] is located in nearby [[Grambling, Louisiana|Grambling]], only four miles west of the Louisiana Tech campus. Additionally, [[Louisiana Delta Community College]] has a branch campus located in Ruston.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ladelta.edu/campus-locations/ruston |title=Ruston |access-date=2018-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509225514/http://www.ladelta.edu:80/campus-locations/ruston |archive-date=2017-05-09 |url-status=dead |website=Louisiana Delta Community College}}</ref>