Lake Dick is an

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in Jefferson County,

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, United States. Lake Dick is northeast of Pine Bluff and south of Altheimer. The

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, a

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program which supported farming projects, established the community on the shore of Lake Dick in 1936. The administration built the community's buildings in the next two years and relocated 80 farming families from throughout Arkansas to the community. Unlike most Resettlement Administration farming communities, which divided farmland among their residents, Lake Dick was a cooperative farming project; families jointly participated in producing crops on community farmland according to a work schedule. Roughly one-third of the community's original buildings are still in place; most of the others, particularly the houses, have been relocated to other nearby settlements. The community was added to the

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in 1975.

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It is a part of the

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. - The map shows Dollarway School District as not yet merged into Pine Bluff School District; the merger occurred on July 1, 2021. The schools serving Lake Dick are Park/Greenville School for preschool, James Matthews Elementary School, Robert F. Morehead Middle School, and Dollarway High School. Lake Dick was previously in the Altheimer School District. The Altheimer-Sherrill district was created in 1979 when the Altheimer and Sherrill districts merged. In 1993,Altheimer Unified School District No. 22 Jefferson County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001
" Legislative Joint Auditing Committee,

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. Retrieved on August 2, 2017. page 3 (PDF p. 5/22). that merged into the Altheimer Unified School District (operator of Altheimer-Sherrill High School).SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Jefferson County, AR
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. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. Compare with the highway map. Note that the map indicates a separate boundary for Altheimer Unified schools, but the district already consolidated with the Dollarway School District in 2006. This district merged into the Dollarway district on July 10, 2006.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. Altheimer-Sherrill High closed in 2007, with students moved to Dollarway High. Altheimer Martin Elementary School closed in 2013. In December 2020 the

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ruled that the Dollarway School District should merge into the

as of July 1, 2021; the post-merger school district operated all existing schools from both districts. Accordingly, the attendance boundary maps of the respective schools remained the same for the 2021–2022 school year, and all DSD territory became a part of the PBSD territory. The exception was with the pre-kindergarten levels, as all PBSD areas are now assigned to Forrest Park/Greenville School, including the territory from the former Dollarway district.

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