Arkansas City School District

Defunct school district in Arkansas, United States

The Arkansas City School District was a school district of Arkansas City, Arkansas. Its territory is now in the McGehee School District.

The district had two schools, Arkansas City Elementary School and Arkansas City High School.^[1] The athletic mascot was the river rat.^[2]

The district facility was located 15 miles (24 km) east of McGehee.^[3]

History

In 2004 the Arkansas Legislature approved a law that forced school districts with fewer than 350 students apiece to consolidate with other districts.^[4] On July 1, 2004, the Arkansas City School District and the Delta Special School District were merged into the McGehee district.^[5]

References

^ "2002-2003 Arkansas Education Directory." Arkansas Department of Education. 54. Retrieved on March 6, 2011.
^ "Welcome to Arkansas City Schools." Arkansas City School District. March 14, 2004. 54. Retrieved on July 27, 2011.
^ "Technology Plan Submission Form School Years 2006-2009 Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine." McGehee School District. 2 of 43. Retrieved on July 28, 2011.
^ "Dumas inherits Gould district’s deficit Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine." Arkansas News. May 11, 2005. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
^ "Consolidation/Annexations of LEA's (1983-2010) Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on March 6, 2011.

External links

Arkansas City Schools (Archive)

Education in Desha County, Arkansas

School districts

Dermott
Drew Central
Dumas
- Dumas HS
Marvell-Elaine
McGehee

Former	Arkansas City Arkansas City HS Delta Special Desha-Drew DeWitt (relevant area moved to another county) Elaine

Tertiary

University of Arkansas at Monticello McGehee Campus

v t e Defunct school districts in Arkansas since 1983
Most of the districts merged into other districts; dissolutions, in which the district was divided among other districts, are marked in italics.
1980s	1983: Coal Hill/Hartman Cloverbend Plum Bayou 1984: Dell Greenway/Rector (former) Lafe Leachville/Monette Linwood Portland 1985: Banks Beedeville Belleville/Havana Big Flat/Fifty Six Bodcaw, Cale, Laneburg, Oakgrove/Willisville Caraway/Lake City Desha Floral/Pleasant Plains Glendale Grapevine Knobel New Edinburg Oak Grove/Paragould (former) Oxford/Violet Hill Ross Van Ness St. Charles Thornton 1986: Common Etowah Gilham Lepanto/Tyronza Luxora Oakland Village Wilmot 1987: Chidester Okolona Palestine/Wheatley Wilmar
1990s	1990: Garland Oil Trough Washington Wilmar Camden (October 16) 1991: Griffithville, Judsonia,/Kensett Enola/Mount Vernon 1992: Winthrop Poughkeepsie/Strawberry 1993: Desha-Drew Grubbs/Tuckerman Tri-County Wabbaseka-Tucker (September 1) 1994: Parkdale Prattsville Stanford 1995: Amity/Glenwood 1998: Humnoke
2000s	2003: Lewisville/Stamps Witts Springs 2004: Acorn/Oden Alread/Scotland Altus-Denning Arkansas City/Delta Special Biggers-Reyno Bright Star Bruno-Pyatt/St. Joe/Western Grove Carthage Cord-Charlotte/Newark Cotton Plant Crawfordsville Deer/Mt. Judea Delaplaine Emerson/Taylor Emmet Evening Shade Fountain Hill Fourche Valley/Ola/Perry-Casa/Plainview-Rover Gould Grady Gillett/Humphrey Hatfield Holly Grove Huttig/Strong Kingston/Oark Kingsland/Rison Lake View Leslie Lynn/River Valley McNeil McRae Mt. Holly Mount Pleasant Mulberry/Pleasant View Paron Randolph County/Williford Rural Special/Stone County Saratoga Sparkman St. Paul Swifton Umpire Union Walker Wilburn Winslow 2005: Sulphur Rock Parkin (September 5) 2006: Eudora (February 13) Black Rock/Walnut Ridge DeValls Bluff Elaine Lockesburg Waldo Altheimer Unified (July 10) 2009: Cushman
2010s	2010: Weiner Delight Van-Cove/Wickes Turrell Twin Rivers 2013: Bradley 2014: Norphlet Stephens 2015: Hartford Hughes
2020s	2021: Dollarway
Consolidation/dissolution dates are July 1 of that year unless otherwise stated