Delaplaine School District was a school district headquartered in Delaplaine, Arkansas . It served Delaplaine, O'Kean , and Peach Orchard .
5-542: It was administratively divided between an elementary school (Delaplaine Elementary School) and a high school ( Delaplaine High School ). Until 1962 it had an elementary school in O'Kean. In 1948 the Delaplaine District absorbed the O'Kean district, including the elementary school, and O'Kean High School closed. In 1962 O'Kean Elementary School was shuttered. At some point the Peach Orchard schools consolidated into
10-535: A total of 245 students at the time of its closure. All seven members of the Greene County Tech board approved the closure due to the funds that came with the merger of the Delaplaine district drying up, financial issues, and more stringent Arkansas state standards. The school, along with Delaplaine Elementary, closed in 2007. Delaplaine mayor Larry Myrick stated that the community lost children with families after
15-675: The Delaplaine District: This Arkansas school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Delaplaine High School Delaplaine High School was a middle school and senior high school in Delaplaine, Arkansas . It was initially controlled by the Delaplaine School District , which merged into the Greene County Tech School District on July 1, 2004. After
20-489: The Delaplaine schools. By 2004 new laws were passed requiring school districts with enrollments below 350 to consolidate with other school districts. Delaplaine was one of several districts that were unable to find another district willing to consolidate with it, so the Arkansas Board of Education was to forcibly consolidate it. On July 1, 2004, it consolidated into the Greene County Tech School District . Maps indicating
25-467: The consolidation it was operated by the GCT school district and served students from the former Delaplaine School District boundary. It served Delaplaine, O'Kean , and Peach Orchard . It served O'Kean since 1948, when the O'Kean district merged into the Delaplaine district. It also served Peach Orchard after that respective school district merged into the Delaplaine school district. The Delaplaine campus had
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