Gosnell High School (or Gosnell Secondary School) is an accredited comprehensive public high school located in the city of

Gosnell, Arkansas Gosnell is a city in northern Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,910 at the 2020 census, down from 3,548 at the 2010 census. Geography Gosnell is located in the Arkansas Delta at (35.963308, -89.967224), in north ...

, United States, located northwest of Blytheville. The school provides secondary education for students in grades 7 through 12. It is one of four public high schools in

Mississippi County, Arkansas Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,685. There are two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola. The county was formed on November 1, 1833, and named for the M ...

and the sole high school administered by the

Gosnell School District Gosnell School District (officially: Gosnell School District No. 6) is a public school district based in Gosnell, Arkansas, United States. The Gosnell School District provides early childhood, elementary and secondary education for more than 1, ...

. The school district, and therefore the high school, serves Gosnell and Dell as well as portions of Blytheville.
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History

On July 1, 1984, the

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merged into the Gosnell School District.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.

Athletics

The Gosnell High School mascot and athletic emblem is the ''Pirate'' with blue and gold serving as the school colors. The Gosnell Pirates compete in interscholastic activities within the 3A Classification via the 3A Region 3 Conference, as administered by the Arkansas Activities Association. The Pirates participate in football, bowling (boys/girls), golf (boys/girls), basketball (boys/girls), cheer, competitive cheer, baseball, softball,

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, and track and field (boys/girls). On February 11, 2006, the Gosnell boys basketball team were on the winning side of the highest scoring game in Arkansas prep history with a 221 combined point game (Gosnell 114, Brookland 107). The 1998 Gosnell Pirates football scored a state record 77 touchdowns in a season, which has since been eclipsed twice. The Gosnell Public Schools football field and stadium is named the J.W. Rea Football Field Stadium with the city name of Gosnell as noted on a large metal sign near the main stadium entrance. The football field and stadium were constructed in the late 1960s. The stadium and field were named in honor of J.W. Rea, superintendent of the Gosnell Public Schools (1956-1977), at the time of his retirement in 1977. During Mr. Rea's 21-year tenure, the Gosnell Public Schools underwent sudden growth by the reactivated Blytheville Air Force Base in the late 1950s. During the Cold War Era, the Blytheville Air Force Base was a strategic air base in the United States's Strategic Defense programs. As the Cold War Era subsided in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Blytheville Air Force Base was marked for closure that occurred in 1992.

Notable alumni

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— NFL professional football player.

References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Arkansas Schools in Mississippi County, Arkansas