Leslie School District

Defunct school district in Arkansas, United States

Leslie School District No. 23 or Leslie Public Schools was a school district headquartered in Leslie, Arkansas. It operated the Leslie School a.k.a. the Leslie Public School, which had all grades in a single building; high school students occupied the eastern part of the building while elementary students occupied the western part. As of 2003[update] the district had over 40 employees and 240 students. The high school portion of the building included a gymnasium.[1] The mascot was the bulldog.

History

In 1910 the Leslie school had been established.[1]

Leslie School's class of 1996-1997 had the highest Arkansas Pilot Exit Exam scores in the State of Arkansas.[2]

On July 1, 2004, the Leslie district and the Marshall School District consolidated to form the Searcy County School District,[3] with the Marshall district annexing Leslie. This consolidation occurred because the Leslie district had fewer than 350 students and an Arkansas law passed in 2004 required school districts to have at least 350 students.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Leslie Public School." Leslie School District. June 4, 2003. Retrieved on October 16, 2017.
  2. ^ "Our 1996/97 Seniors scored the best in the state when they took the Arkansas Pilot Exit Exam.." Leslie School District. May 3, 2003. Retrieved on October 16, 2017.
  3. ^ "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.
  4. ^ "Executive Summary Searcy County Public Schools Archived 2017-10-16 at the Wayback Machine." AdvancED. p. 2 (PDF p. 4). Retrieved on October 16, 2017.

Further reading

Maps of the district:

  • Map of Arkansas School Districts pre-July 1, 2004
  • "Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Searcy County, 1952-1954". Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download)

External links

  • Leslie School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  • Leslie School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  • "Leslie School District No. 23 Searcy County, Arkansas Regulatory Basis Financial Statements And Other Reports June 30, 2004."
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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
2010s2020s
Consolidation/dissolution dates are July 1 of that year unless otherwise stated
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