Desha-Drew School District

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Desha-Drew School District
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Arkansas
United States
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ClosedJuly 1, 1993

Desha-Drew School District was a school district in Desha County and Drew County in Arkansas, with the administration in Desha County. [1]

It operated the B. C. Prewitt Memorial Elementary and Junior High School in Tillar. [2] It also operated a school called Tillar School. [3]

In 1989 34.9% of the certified employees were black while 94.4% of the student body was black. [4]

On July 1, 1993, it was disestablished with territory given to the Dumas School District and the McGehee School District. [5]

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References

  1. "Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Desha County, 1952-1954". Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download)
    "Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Drew County, 1952-1954". Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download) - The Drew county map notes that the district's administrative offices were in Desha County.
  2. Gertler, Diane Bochner (1969). Directory: Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Large School Districts with Enrollment and Instructional Staff, by Race: Fall 1967, Volume 20121. U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics. p.  35.
  3. Directory of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Selected Districts. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office for Civil Rights. 1968. p.  35.
  4. "State says more than half of schools have no black teachers, administrators". Blytheville Courier News . Blytheville, Arkansas. Associated Press. 1989-02-20. p. 10 via Newspaperarchive.com.
  5. "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.