New Gascony, also known as Barraqué Landing, is an unincorporated community in Jefferson county,

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, west of Pine Bluff, the county seat. It was founded by ''Antoine Barraqué'', a 19th-century landowner, on November 29, 1832, and named for the

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region of

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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 New Gascony are Park/Greenville School for preschool, James Matthews Elementary School, Robert F. Morehead Middle School, and Dollarway High School. New Gascony 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
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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 Dollarway in 2006. That district merged into the Dollarway School 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 began operating 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. In 2023 the district announced that Dollarway High would merge into Pine Bluff High School, and that Morehead Middle School would become the only middle school for all of the Pine Bluff School District.

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