Desha-Drew School District

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

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

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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]

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. February 20, 1989. p. 10 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
  5. ↑ "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.

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