Stephens High School was a comprehensive public high school located in

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, United States. The school provided secondary education in grades 7 through 12 for approximately 175 students. It was one of four public high schools in Ouachita County and is the sole high school administered by the Stephens School District. The roadrunner was the mascot and the school colors were black and gold. The Stephens school district was dissolved effective July 1, 2014, with portions given to the

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, the Magnolia School District, and the

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Academics

The Stephens High School and the rest of Stephens School District closed down after the 2013-2014 school year. The students who went to SHS were consolidated to three other schools: Nevada High School in Rosston, Magnolia High School in

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, and Camden-Fairview High School in

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Athletics

The Stephens High School mascot and athletic emblem is the ''Roadrunner'' with school colors of black and gold. The Stephens Roadrunners compete in interscholastic activities within the 1A Classification administered by the

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. The Leopards play within the 1A 7 East Conference. The Roadrunners participate in golf (boys/girls), basketball (boys/girls), cheer, baseball,

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, and track and field (boys/girls).

Notable people

Frank Spooner William Franklin Spooner, known as Frank Spooner (born September 9, 1937), is an oil and natural gas producer in Monroe, Louisiana, Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who has been active since the early 1970s in his state's Repu ...

(1955), Louisiana businessman and politician"Otto Passman, Jerry Huckaby, and Frank Spooner: The Louisiana Fifth Congressional District Election of 1976", ''Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association'', LIV No. 3 (Summer 2013), p. 346

References

External links

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