Kingston School District Explained

Kingston School District was a school district headquartered in Kingston, a community in unincorporated Madison County, Arkansas.

Its school was Kingston Public School/Kingston School,^{[1] [2]} divided into Kingston Elementary School and Kingston High School.

History

In 1980 the Newton County School District dissolved, with a portion going to the Kingston district.^[3]

On July 1, 2004, the Kingston district, along with the Oark School District, merged into the Jasper School District.^[4] Kingston could have consolidated with the Clarksville School District and Huntsville School District, which were geographically closer, but the district administration instead chose to consolidate with the Jasper district.^[5]

Further reading

These include maps of predecessor districts:

• Web site: Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Madison County, 1952-1954. Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download)
• Web site: Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Newton County, 1952-1954. Arkansas Digital Archives. Arkansas State Archives. (Download)

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20021208123041/http://kingston.oursc.k12.ar.us/ Home
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20031214134520/http://kingston.oursc.k12.ar.us/ Home
3. Web site: Goatcher. Truett. School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?. Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators. January 1999. 17 (PDF p. 17/27).
4. "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.
5. Web site: Shiras, Ginger. Schools get $1.22 million Deer-Mt. Judea, Jasper collect isolated funds . Bolivar Herald-Free Press. 2006-01-19. 2018-05-23.