Friendship Academy, Shreveport was a school on the west side of Shreveport (Caddo Parish), Louisiana. The school opened on Winderweedle Road on the west side of Shreveport for the 1970âÂÂ71 school year. It was a member of the Louisiana Independent School Association, an athletic conference of segregation academies formed in 1970. Friendship Academy merged with West Shreveport Academy beginning with the 1971âÂÂ72 school year, with a new building on Jefferson Paige Road. It had 430 students at that time. The school closed in 1985, by which time enrollment had decreased to 140.