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Lake Dick is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Jefferson County,
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
, United States. Lake Dick is northeast of Pine Bluff and south of Altheimer. The
Resettlement Administration The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935. It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. On September 1, 1937, it was succeeded by the Farm S ...
, 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.


Education

It is a part of the
Pine Bluff School District Pine Bluff School District No. 3 (PBSD) is a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The district has 10 schools with over 3,800 students and 500 employees. The headquarters are the Jordan-Chanay Administrative Center in Pine ...
. - 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 Dollarway High School was a comprehensive public high school in northwest"School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School," p. 28 (PDF p. 30/50) Pine Bluff, Arkansas that served grades 9 through 12. It wa ...
. 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 Altheimer-Sherrill High School was a junior and senior high school (grades 7-12) in Altheimer, Arkansas, United States, operated by the Altheimer-Sherrill School District,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
Arkansas State Board of Education The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) is a cabinet-level agency of the Arkansas state government overseeing public education for K-12, higher education institutions, and career and technical education. The ADE also contains the Arkansas ...
ruled that the Dollarway School District should merge into the
Pine Bluff School District Pine Bluff School District No. 3 (PBSD) is a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The district has 10 schools with over 3,800 students and 500 employees. The headquarters are the Jordan-Chanay Administrative Center in Pine ...
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. 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.


See also

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