Altheimer Unified School District No. 22, previously the Altheimer-Sherrill School District, was a school district headquartered in

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. It served Altheimer, Sherrill, Wabbaseka, and other portions of Jefferson County, including the

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. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. Note that Plum Bayou consolidated into the Wabbaseka Tucker school district in 1983, then the Altheimer-Sherrill and Wabbaseka Tucker school districts consolidated into Altheimer Unified in 1993, which in turn consolidated into Dollarway in 2006. Therefore this district formerly served Tucker and Plum Bayou. and

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. The district in the 1993-2006 period had of territory. In its final years the district operated two schools: Martin Elementary School and Altheimer-Sherrill High School. In the pre-desegregation era white students attended Altheimer High School and black students attended Altheimer Training School. In 2006 it merged into the

Dollarway School District Dollarway School District No. 2 (DSD) was a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. With over 1,600 students and employing more than 300 educators and staff, the district had three active school campuses at the end o ...

, which in turn will merge into the

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in 2021.

History

In the 1960s the Altheimer district began a "school of choice" program where parents could choose which schools their children could attend, in light of educational desegregation of races. The Altheimer-Sherrill district was created in 1979 when the Altheimer and Sherrill districts merged. Fred Martin, Jr., formerly the principal of the high school, became the superintendent of the Altheimer-Sherrill School District in 1982. Martin left the district in 1988 and became the mayor of Altheimer. Altheimer-Sherrill School District annexed the former Wabbaseka-Tucker School District on August 16, 1993.Altheimer Unified School District No. 22 Jefferson County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001
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. Retrieved on August 2, 2017. page 3 (PDF p. 5/22). As the Altheimer Unified School District it began operations on September 1, 1993, making Wabbaseka, Tucker, and Plum Bayou a part of the district. Both the Altheimer-Sherrill and Wabbaseka-Tucker districts had debts from overpayment and so the merged district took those debts.Altheimer Unified School District No. 22 Jefferson County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001
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. Retrieved on February 27, 2021. page 16 (PDF p. 18/22). The district received a school property in Wabbaseka when it annexed the Wabbaseka district; the district ended all use of the property in 1996.EPA Removes Chemicals from Former Wabbaseka School
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. May 25, 2011. Retrieved on August 2, 2017. Altheimer Unified sold it to the City of Wabbaseka for $674,623 in the 2001 fiscal year. By June 2001 it was not yet used for a new purpose. The Altheimer Library of the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Library System was built on land sold by Altheimer Unified to the county government for $3,784. For a two-year period until 2006 the district ran at a deficit due to enrollment declines. Its final enrollment was about 400. The State of Arkansas required for the Altheimer district to merge with another district, but Altheimer could choose another district that agreed to merge with it. The only district that agreed to do so was the

. The Altheimer Unified School District consolidated into the Dollarway district on July 10, 2006. A majority of board members of each district ultimately agreed to the consolidation. Effective July 1, 2021, the Dollarway territory will be in the

Academic performance

Before the closing of the district, the district was in academic distress according to State of Arkansas measurements. - CITED: p. 30 (PDF p. 32/50).

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