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VISION STATEMENT

By inspiring greatness, all children will realize their worth, and reach their fullest potential.

MISSION STATEMENT

Richardson Pride – Positive, Reliable Instruction Dedicated to Excellence

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SCHOOL HISTORY

E.S. Richardson Elementary School is a fourth and fifth-grade campus that serves the city of Minden. The school opened in the 1949-1950 academic year, with Wayne Wynn Williams, Sr. (1917-2000), as the principal. It was the original companion school to William G. Stewart Elementary School, which served the western side of Minden and also opened in 1949 and closed in the fall of 2011 under a parish realignment plan. Both schools were part of a post-World War II bond issue. In 1954, Williams, originally from Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana, switched positions with John L. Cathcart (1895-1969), the principal of Minden High School. Cathcart, a South Carolina native, hence took over the principalship at Richardson, as Williams went to Minden High School. Prior to the 2011 changes, Richardson offered all elementary grades and had nearly five hundred pupils. Richardson school is named for Edward S. Richardson (1875-1950), school superintendent of Bienville and then Webster parishes, and thereafter the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish, as well as a national spokesman on educational issues.