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based in Bryant,

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. Since the 2010–11 school year, the school district provides early childhood, elementary and secondary education to more than 8,000 students in prekindergarten through grade 12 and employs more than 875 educators and staff at its schools and district offices. BPS encompasses of land in Saline County. It supports all portions of Bryant,

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, Benton, Salem CDP, Shannon Hills, and Paron. - See Paron on the map.

History

In the early 1970s, political aide

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set up the public school system's psychological counseling services while she worked in the district. On July 1, 2004 the Paron School District merged into the Bryant School District.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on May 23, 2018. Because the state government considered Paron an isolated rural area, it gave an additional $838,000 to the Bryant district. Due to low student populations and the resulting complications, the district closed Paron High School in 2006,School Consolidation
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. Retrieved on May 24, 2018. and Paron Elementary School in 2015. In 2011, Bryant School District and its high school were recognized in the ''AP District of the Year Awards'' program in the

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's 2nd Annual Honor Roll that consisted of 367 U.S. public school districts (4 in Arkansas) that simultaneously achieved increases in access to AP® courses for a broader number of students and improved the rate at which their AP students earned scores of 3 or higher on an AP Exam.

Schools

High schools: * Bryant High School, grades 10-12 located in Bryant *Bryant Jr. High , grade 9 &8 Middle schools: *Bryant Middle School, grades 6&7located in Bryant *Bethel Middle School, grades 6–8 located in Alexander (to be open only to 6-7 graders in 2019) In 2017, Bryant Public Schools announced a junior high school, which will be open in the 2019-20 school year to 8th through 9th graders. Elementary schools: * Bryant Elementary, prekindergarten through grade 5 located in Bryant * Collegeville Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Bryant * Robert L. Davis Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in

* Hurricane Creek Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Benton * Salem Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Bryant * Springhill Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Alexander * Hillfarm Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Bryant *Parkway Elementary, kindergarten through grade 5 located in Parkway

Former schools

* Paron High School in Paron (''

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'') - Acquired in 2004, closed in 2006 * Paron Elementary School in Paron (''Unincorporated area'') - Acquired in 2004. In 2015, the Bryant district voted to close Paron Elementary School. At the time it had about 75 students. Paron students were reassigned to Salem Elementary School.

Notable alumni

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- Current Professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs *

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- Former Arkansas State Senator

References

External links

Bryant Public Schools website
* {{Education in Saline County, Arkansas Education in Saline County, Arkansas School districts in Arkansas