Marksville High School is a high school located in the city of Marksville, Louisiana. It is a 7th through 12th grade school with 78 students enrolled. The school dates to 1856, when it was established through the work of superintendent Pierre-Adolphe Lafargue, a native of the Pyrenees Mountains region of France. Lafargue was also a mayor of Marksville. Two of Lafargue's sons, Adolphe Jolna Lafarge and Arnaud D. Lafargue, both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and were leading figures in their native Marksville.