Paragould School District is a

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district headquartered in

Paragould, Arkansas Paragould is the county seat of Greene County, and the 19th-largest city in Arkansas, in the United States. The city is located in northeastern Arkansas on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge, a geologic anomaly contained within the Arkansas delta ...

. It serves the northern portion of Paragould and Oak Grove Heights. The district includes numerous campuses, including the Paragould Secondary Complex (which includes

Paragould High School Paragould High School is a public school serving grades nine through twelve located in Paragould, Arkansas. The campus is located at 1701 West Court Street in Paragould and is administered by Paragould School District. Oak Grove High School ...

and Paragould Junior High School), the Oak Grove Heights campus (which includes Oak Grove Middle School and Oak Grove Elementary School), Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Baldwin Elementary School, a School of the 21st Century campus which includes pre-Elementary school education and care, Central School of Greene County which provides alternative education options for youth, and a separate administration complex which houses the office of the superintendent among others. The administration complex will be moving to an outlot of the Paragould Secondary Complex pending completion of the new building. In 2005 construction was completed on a football/soccer stadium and fieldhouse. In 2004 a new Science and Technology Center opened on campus, housing science and technology classes for the High School.

History

Prior to August 26, 1957, the former Paragould district sent, via contract, high school-aged African-American children to Booker T. Washington High School in

Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. According to the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 78,576 and is the f ...

, which was operated by the

Jonesboro School District Jonesboro School District (or Jonesboro Public Schools (JPS)) is a school district headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Schools Secondary schools * High schools ** Jonesboro High School—1982-83 National Blue Ribbon School * Junior high sch ...

. On that day the Jonesboro district's board of trustees ended the contract. The Northeast Arkansas School District was formed on July 1, 1985, by the merger of the former Paragould School District with the Oak Grove School District. On July 1, 1994, the

Stanford School District Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...

merged into the Northeast Arkansas district.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on October 13, 2017. By 1997 the name of the new district became the Paragould district.Home
Paragould School District. February 11, 1997. Retrieved on October 14, 2017. "Paragould School District is a consolidated district comprising the former districts of Oak Grove, Stanford, and Paragould."

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Yale University's School of the 21st Century website
School districts in Arkansas Education in Greene County, Arkansas Paragould, Arkansas 1985 establishments in Arkansas School districts established in 1985 {{Arkansas-school-stub

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