Wabbaseka-Tucker School District

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Wabbaseka-Tucker School District, previously the Wabbaseka School District No. 7,[1] was a school district in Jefferson County, Arkansas, serving Wabbaseka, Tucker, and .

The district operated two schools: Wabbaseka Elementary School and Wabbaseka High School.[2] At one time the district also operated Tucker Elementary School.[3]

History[]

By the 1980s the administration of the sought to be annexed by the Wabbaseka School District due to financial difficulties; the Plum Bayou-Tucker district was to be dissolved with Wabbaseka absorbing the new territory.[4] On July 1, 1983, the consolidation into the Wabbaseka Tucker School District occurred.[5] The former Plum Bayou-Tucker district had employed 21 teachers; the consolidated district retained 19 of them.[4]

In 1989 the district had 283 students.[6]

On September 1, 1993, the Wabbaseka-Tucker district consolidated with the Altheimer-Sherrill School District to form the Altheimer Unified School District. The territory merged into the Dollarway School District on July 10, 2006.[5] and it will be in the Pine Bluff School District effective July 1, 2021.[7]

Jefferson County, Arkansas school district mergers
Pine BluffLinwoodDollarwayHardinAltheimer-SherrillWabbaseka
Pine BluffDollarwayWabbaseka-Tucker
Altheimer Unified
Dollarway
Pine Bluff

References[]

  1. ^ "Wabbaseka School District No. 7 v. Johnson". Justia. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  2. ^ Arkansas Education Directory 1990-1991. p. 56. (See archive at archive.is). "Wabbaseka-Tucker School District[...]Wabbaseka Elementary Sch.[...]Wabbaseka High School 07-12"
  3. ^ CIC School Directory, Volume 3. , 1983. p. 15 (View of page without view of content, see search result showing information). "Tucker Elem School/ L A Evans General Delivery, Wright 72182, [...] Wabbaseka Jr-Sr High School/ Mr Jean C Edwards P 0 Box 210, Wabbaseka 72175, [...]"
  4. ^ a b "WOODARD v. WABBASEKA-TUCKER PUB. SCH. DIST Supreme Court of Arkansas 286 Ark. 110 (Ark. 1985)." Arkansas Supreme Court at . Opinion delivered May 20, 1985. Retrieved on August 1, 2017. See PDF text
  5. ^ a b "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on July 31, 2017.
  6. ^ Barnes, Steve. "The burden of unfairness". The Baxter Bulletin. Mountain Home, Arkansas. p. 4A. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Howell, Cynthia (2020-12-11). "State votes to combine Dollarway, Pine Bluff schools". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved 2021-02-23.

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