Delight School District No. 44 or Delight Public Schools was a school district headquartered in

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. It operated an elementary school and a high school. The district occupied portions of

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. Retrieved on May 26, 2018. In addition to Delight, the district served residents of

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, Bowen, Billstown, Pike City, and Pisgah. - See Billstown, Bowen, Pike City, and Pisgah on the map. The district also stated it served Okolona; Okolona itself is within the

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. In 2001 the Delight district had 29 preschool students; that year it also had 206 elementary school students and 170 secondary students for a total of 376 in K-12. In 2010 it merged into the

South Pike County School District South Pike County School District, formerly Murfreesboro School District, is a public school district based in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, USA. The school district encompasses of land in Pike and Clark counties.

History

Sometime before 1900 a two-story building was constructed to serve as the community's school; in 1924 a fire destroyed the building. In 1926 grades 11 and 12 opened; the district previously went to grade 10. In 1927 Coach N.C. Crain asked athletes to pick the school colors and mascot while traveling to an athletics match.History of School - Delight
" Delight School District. September 7, 2001. Retrieved on May 26, 2018. On July 1, 1987, the Okolona School District was dissolved; a portion went to the Delight School District.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on May 26, 2018. By 2010 the student population of Delight had fallen below 350, which required the district to be merged into another district under Arkansas law. That year the Delight district and the Weiner School District, another school district under the 350 student limit, attempted a voluntary merger, but the

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(ABE) declined on the grounds of the two districts being too far apart; the distance was . Weiner instead ultimately merged with the Harrisburg School District. On February 25, 2010, the Delight district asked the ABE to be instead merged into the adjacent Murfreesboro School District, which had 545 students. On July 1, 2010, the Delight district merged with the Murfreesboro district to form the

Campus

The campus had main classroom buildings for elementary and secondary students. It also had a preschool building, a cafeteria, a gymnasium, a home economics building, a building for biological sciences and business classes, an art building, an agricultural classroom/shop facility, the Pickett Building, and a bus barn. In 1978 the main classroom buildings for both elementary and secondary levels opened. The final gymnasium opened in 1982, replacing a 1950 building that was destroyed in a fire in 1982. The

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(WPA) had built a previous high school building. The WPA also built the agriculture, Pickett, and home economics facilities. The cafeteria built in 1965, received a renovation about 15–20 years later.

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Petition for Annexation - Delight and Murfreesboro Districts

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Delight School District No. 44 Pike County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001

Delight School District No. 44 Pike County, Arkansas Basic Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2004

Delight School District No. 44 Pike County, Arkansas Regulatory Basis Financial Statements And Other Reports June 30, 2007
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