Zachary Community School Board
school district in Louisiana, United States
ZCSD (ZCSD), or Zachary Community School Board is a school district in Zachary, Louisiana, United States. In addition to Zachary it serves some unincorporated areas around it.
The Zachary Community School System was founded in 2002 and was formed from schools that had been located in the East Baton Rouge Parish School District. The schools in this system are located within the City of Zachary; however, the school district boundaries include areas outside of the incorporated City of Zachary.
Since 2005, the school system has been recognized by the Louisiana Department of Education as the top system in Louisiana.
“Zachary Community School Board” enters the record as school district in Louisiana, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zachary, Community and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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