White Hall School District

School district in Arkansas

White Hall School District
Address
1020 West Holland Avenue White Hall , Arkansas, 71602-9572 United States
Coordinates	34°17′08″N 92°06′26″W / 34.28556°N 92.10722°W / 34.28556; -92.10722 (White Hall School District)
District information
Type	Public
Grades	K through 12th Grade
Superintendent	Gary Williams
Accreditation	AdvancED
Schools	Elementary 4 Middle 1 High 1
NCES District ID	0514140^[1]
Other information
Schedule	M-F except state holidays
Website	whitehallsd.org

White Hall School District (WHSD) is a public school district in northwest Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. The district employs approximately 400 faculty members and staff to provide educational programs for students ranging from kindergarten through twelve grade. It currently serves more than 3,000 students. All schools in the White Hall School District are accredited by AdvancED (North Central Association of Colleges and Schools).

The district is headquartered in the Julius S. Brown Administration Building in White Hall. The district serves White Hall and a portion of Pine Bluff. It boundaries include the Jefferson County Industrial Park.^[2] In addition to White Hall and portions of Pine Bluff, the district also serves Redfield, and Jefferson.^[3]^[4]

History

Initially the Dollarway School District (DSD) sent older white students to White Hall High School and other area high schools, as it did not have its own high school for white students nor one for black students.^[5] In 1957 DSD opened its own high school for white children, Dollarway High School.^[6] In 1979 the Jefferson County School District dissolved, with a portion of the students going to the White Hall school district.^[7]

For a period of time the number of students increased. From the 2007-2008 school year to the 2008-2009 school year, the number of students fell by 82. This reflected economic problems in the Arkansas Delta region, meant that the population was down to levels circa 1998 and was the largest decrease thus far in the period 2004-2009.^[8]

In 2017 Jack Foster, a former alderman of the City of Pine Bluff, argued that the setup of the WHSD boundaries is preventing the DSD from getting necessary funding. The superintendent of WHSD, Larry Smith, stated that Foster's criticism was based on a misunderstanding as the state government had determined the school district boundaries, not the districts themselves.^[2]

Schools

Secondary schools:

White Hall High School
White Hall Middle School

Elementary schools:

Ida Mae Gandy Elementary School
M. A. Hardin Elementary School (Redfield)
Moody Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School

References

^ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for White Hall School District". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Former PB alderman calls WHSD boundaries unfair". Pine Bluff Commercia. June 7, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Jefferson County, AR" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 29, 2021. - The map shows Dollarway School District as not yet merged into Pine Bluff School District.
^ "General Highway Map Jefferson County, Arkansas" (PDF). Arkansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved February 25, 2021. - See location of Jefferson.
^ Pickhardt, John B. (Winter 2009). "We Don't Intend to Have a Story: Integration in the Dollarway School District". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 68 (4). Arkansas Historical Association: 357–387. JSTOR 40543600. - Cited page 359.
^ Pickhardt, John B. (Winter 2009). "We Don't Intend to Have a Story: Integration in the Dollarway School District". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 68 (4). Arkansas Historical Association: 357–387. JSTOR 40543600. - Cited page 360.
^ Goatcher, Truett (January 1999). "School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?" (PDF). Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators. p. 14 (PDF p. 17/27).
^ "HIGHER ED NUMBERS UP; PUBLIC SCHOOLS DROP". Pine Bluff Commercial. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. September 9, 2008.

External links

Government

Official website

General information

White Hall School District at Ballotpedia

Education in Jefferson County, Arkansas

Public high schools
and charter schools

Pine Bluff SD

Pine Bluff HS

Closed	Dollarway HS Merrill HS

Watson Chapel SD

Watson Chapel HS

Closed	Coleman HS

White Hall SD

White Hall HS

Charter

Friendship Aspire (including former Southeast Arkansas Prep)
Lighthouse Academies

Former school districts

Altheimer Unified SD
- Altheimer-Sherrill HS
Dollarway SD
Humphrey SD
Plum Bayou-Tucker SD
Wabbaseka-Tucker SD

Private schools

Religious

Ridgway Christian School (high school division closed)

Closed	St. Joseph Catholic School St. Peter's Catholic School

Tertiary
Universities/colleges	University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Southeast Arkansas College

Libraries
Public	Pine Bluff and Jefferson County Library System

Note that a small portion of the county is zoned to DeWitt School District, which operates DeWitt High School in another county.
This list may be incomplete.