Lacombe, Louisiana
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Lacombe is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,679 at the 2010 census,<ref name="Census 2010">Template:Cite web</ref> and 8,657 in 2020.<ref name=":0" />
Geography
[edit]Lacombe is located at Template:Coord (30.314863, -89.931462).<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref> According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert, or 3.86%, is water.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Demographics
[edit]Number | Percentage | |
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White (non-Hispanic) | 5,483 | 63.34% |
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 1,755 | 20.27% |
Native American | 54 | 0.62% |
Asian | 47 | 0.54% |
Pacific Islander | 2 | 0.02% |
Other/Mixed | 671 | 7.75% |
Hispanic or Latino | 645 | 7.45% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 8,657 people, 3,456 households, and 2,260 families residing in the CDP.
Education
[edit]Lacombe is within the St. Tammany Parish Public Schools district.<ref>Template:Cite web - Text list</ref>
Schools that serve most of Lacombe include:
- Chahta-Ima Elementary School<ref>Chahta-Ima Elementary attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Bayou Lacombe Middle School<ref>Bayou Lacombe Middle attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Monteleone Junior High School<ref>Monteleone Junior High attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Lakeshore High School<ref>Lakeshore High School attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref> - St. Tammany Parish's newest high school, opened August 2009<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Schools that serve small sections of Lacombe:
- Woodlake Elementary School in Mandeville serves a small portion of western Lacombe<ref>"Woodlake Elementary attendance boundary." St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Mandeville Middle School near Mandeville serves a small portion of western Lacombe<ref>Madisonville Middle School attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Slidell Junior High School in Slidell serves a small portion of eastern Lacombe<ref>Slidell Junior High School attendance zone. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref>
- Slidell High School in Slidell serves a small portion of eastern Lacombe<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Previously Fontainebleau High School served much of Lacombe.<ref>Fontainebleau High School Boundary. St. Tammany Parish Public Schools. December 1, 2006. Retrieved on July 7, 2018.</ref> Previously Mandeville High School served Lacombe.Template:Citation neededTemplate:When
St. Tammany Parish Library operates the Lacombe Branch.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The main campus of Northshore Technical Community College is in Lacombe. This campus was established in January 2017.<ref name=Fox8Slidellclosed>Template:Cite web</ref> St. Tammany Parish is within the service areas of two community colleges: NTCC, and Delgado Community College.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable people
[edit]- Pete Schneider, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Lacombe resident
- Adrien Rouquette, (born in Louisiana in 1813, of French parentage; died in 1887) was a writer and a Catholic missionary among the Choctaw Native Americans.
References
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