Alread School District

Alread School District No. 5 was a school district headquartered in Alread, an unincorporated area in Van Buren County, Arkansas.

History

The first school in the area was created in the 1800s. The final school facility, the Old Main Building, opened in 1930.[1]

Circa 2004 area residents described the Alread School as the smallest school in the state.[2]

On July 1, 2004, the Alread district consolidated with the Scotland School District into the existing Clinton School District.[3] The Alread middle and high schools closed in 2005, and the Alread elementary school closed in 2006. An arrangement was set up to where people in the westernmost part of the former Alread school district could instead attend school in the Hector School District as they were closer to Hector than Clinton.[2]

References

1. "Alread school history". Batesville Daily Guard. Batesville, Arkansas. May 31, 2006. p. B8 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Stroud, Larry (May 31, 2006). "Alread's last grads: The small school with a big heart". Batesville Daily Guard. Batesville, Arkansas. p. B8 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.

Further reading

These include maps of predecessor districts:

• "Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Van Buren County, 1952-1954". Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download)

External links

• Alread School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Alread School District No. 5, Van Buren County, Arkansas, general purpose financial statements and other reports June 30, 2003