Poughkeepsie (Pronounced locally as Pow-keeps-ee) 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 Sharp 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. The community is located in south central Sharp County, one mile south of the Strawberry River. The community is on

Arkansas Highway 56 Arkansas Highway 56 (AR 56 and Hwy. 56) is an east–west state highway in Sharp and Izard Counties. The route runs from Arkansas Highway 5 in Calico Rock east and south to Poughkeepsie. Route description AR 56 begins in Calico Rock at Ar ...

approximately six miles east of

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Education

Hillcrest School District Hillcrest School District is a school district based in Strawberry, Arkansas, United States. The district encompasses of land in Lawrence, Independence, and Sharp counties, and serves portions of Strawberry, Lynn, Smithville, Poughkeepsi ...

operates area schools which serve Poughkeepsie, - See Poughkeepsie on the map. including Hillcrest Elementary School in Lynn and Hillcrest High School in

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. The River Valley School District formed on July 1, 1992, by the merger of the

Poughkeepsie School District Poughkeepsie ( ) is a city within the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson River Valley region, midway between the core of the New Yor ...

and the

Strawberry School District The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid plant cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The genus ''Fragaria'', the strawberries, is in the rose family, Rosaceae. The fruit is appreciated fo ...

. On July 1, 2004, River Valley merged with the Lynn School District to form the Hillcrest School District.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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Arkansas Department 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 ...

. Retrieved on October 13, 2017.

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Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Sharp County, Arkansas {{SharpCountyAR-geo-stub