Delta Special School District Explained

Delta Special School District
State:	Arkansas
County:	Desha County
Country:	United States
Established:	1972
Closed:	July 1, 2004,
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The Delta Special School District was a school district of Rohwer, unincorporated Desha County, Arkansas, USA. Its territory is now in the McGehee School District. It also included Watson.

The district had two schools, Delta Elementary School and Delta High School.^[1]

The district facility was located 12miles northeast of McGehee.^[2]

History

The district formed in 1972 by the merger of the Desha Special School District and the Watson School District.^[3]

In 2004, the Arkansas Legislature approved a law that forced school districts with fewer than 350 students to consolidate with other districts.^[4] Both the McGehee and Delta school districts petitioned the Arkansas Board of Education, asking for an annexation of Delta into McGehee. The board approved the annexation on April 26, 2004.^[5] On July 1, 2004, the Delta Special School District and the Arkansas City School District were merged into the McGehee district.^[6]

Further reading

• Map of Arkansas School Districts pre-July 1, 2004
• Web site: Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Desha County, 1952-1954. Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download) - includes boundaries of the predecessor districts (Desha Special and Watson)

External links

• Delta Special School District (Archive)

Notes and References

1. 2002-2003 Arkansas Education Directory, Arkansas Department of Education. 54. Retrieved on March 6, 2011.
2. Web site: Technology Plan Submission Form School Years 2006-2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328060846/http://owls.k12.ar.us/PDF/Tech_Doc/MSDTechPlan60-09.pdf . March 28, 2012. McGehee School District. 2. September 18, 2021.
3. Web site: Goatcher. Truett. School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?. Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators. January 1999. 16 (PDF p. 16/27).
4. Web site: Dumas inherits Gould district’s deficit. https://web.archive.org/web/20110707163238/http://arkansasnews.com/2005/05/11/dumas-inherits-gould-districts-deficit/ . July 7, 2011. Arkansas News. May 11, 2005. March 7, 2011.
5. Web site: Delta Special School District Desha County, Arkansas Basic Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328060833/http://owls.k12.ar.us/PDF/DeltaSpecialSD2004.pdf . March 28, 2012. Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, State of Arkansas. 7. September 18, 2021.
6. Web site: Consolidation/Annexations of LEA's (1983-2010) ]. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924075952/http://arkansased.org/about/excel/consolidaton_annexation_070110.xls . September 24, 2010. Arkansas Department of Education. March 6, 2011.