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{{short description|Former school district in Arkansas}}
{{Infobox school district
 | name                   = {{PAGENAMEBASE}}
 | address                = 4900 Dollarway Road
 | city                   = Pine Bluff
 | state                  = Arkansas
 | zipcode                = 71602
 | type                   = Public
 | grades                 = PreK–12<ref name="nces_dist" />
 | closed                 = 2021
 | us_nces_district_id    = {{NCES District ID|0505410|district_name=DOLLARWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT|access_date=2022-03-05}}
 | students               = 936<ref name="nces_dist" />
 | teachers               = 79.67<ref name="nces_dist" />
 | staff                  = 115.0<ref name="nces_dist" />
 | ratio                  = 11.75<ref name="nces_dist" />
 | website                = {{URL2|https://www.dollarwayschools.org/}}
}}
'''Dollarway School District No. 2'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legaudit.state.ar.us/AuditReports/PublicSchools/2001/DollarwaySD2001.pdf|title=Dollarway School District No. 2 Jefferson County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001|publisher=State of Arkansas|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040408025015/http://www.legaudit.state.ar.us/AuditReports/PublicSchools/2001/DollarwaySD2001.pdf|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2004-04-08}}</ref> ('''DSD'''<!--From https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nj-q3uIhvI4tRY-hBGp6nPGk-MlPTSuMNQrts8o7wMw/edit -->) was a school district headquartered in [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas|Pine Bluff]], [[Arkansas]], [[Education in the United States|United States]].<ref>[http://www.dollarwayschools.org/ Home page]. Dollarway School District. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. "4900 Dollarway Rd. Pine Bluff, AR 71602"</ref> With over 1,600 students and employing more than 300 educators and staff, the district had three active school campuses at the end of its life.

It served sections of Pine Bluff as well as the municipalities of [[Altheimer, Arkansas|Altheimer]], [[Sherrill, Arkansas|Sherrill]], and [[Wabbaseka, Arkansas|Wabbaseka]]. It was one of four school districts to serve sections of Pine Bluff.<ref name=Censusmap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st05_ar/schooldistrict_maps/c05069_jefferson/DC20SD_C05069.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Jefferson County, AR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2021-06-29}} - The map shows Dollarway School District as not yet merged into Pine Bluff School District.</ref><!--It seems https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st05_ar/schooldistrict_maps/c05069_jefferson/DC20SD_C05069.pdf does NOT show any part of White Hall in Dollarway SD while https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st05_ar/c05069_jefferson/DC10SD_C05069_001.pdf (2010) does. Perhaps it was an error by the Census Bureau, as I am not aware of Dollarway giving away any land to White Hall SD--> It also served the [[unincorporated area]]s of [[Hardin, Arkansas|Hardin]],<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> [[Lake Dick, Arkansas|Lake Dick]], [[New Gascony, Arkansas|New Gascony]],<ref name=JeffHighwayMap>{{cite web|url=https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/JeffersonCounty.pdf<!--Old URL is http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/JeffersonCounty.pdf which is on the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/JeffersonCounty.pdf-->|title=General Highway Map Jefferson County, Arkansas|publisher=[[Arkansas Department of Transportation]]|access-date=2021-03-05}} - See Lake Dick, New Gascony, and Sweden on the map.</ref> [[Pastoria, Arkansas|Pastoria]], [[Plum Bayou, Arkansas|Plum Bayou]],<ref name=PBCommSchoolClosurehitcomm>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbcommercial.com/article/20130411/OPINION/304119906|title=School closures hit a community|publisher=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2013-04-11|access-date=2017-08-04|quote=The former Altheimer district included students from Altheimer, Wabbaseka, Sherrill, Tucker, Pastoria, Wright and the Plum Bayou communities.}} - [http://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/Communications/clips/April_2013/ADE_Clips_4_12_2013.pdf Alternate location] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227015817/http://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/Communications/clips/April_2013/ADE_Clips_4_12_2013.pdf |date=2016-12-27 }} at the [[Arkansas Department of Education]] (PDF page 3/13)</ref> [[Sweden, Arkansas|Sweden]],<ref name=JeffHighwayMap/> [[Tucker, Arkansas|Tucker]],<ref name=Consolfrom1983>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20150912013154/http://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/Legal/ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls]." [[Arkansas Department of Education]]. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. Note that Plum Bayou consolidated into the Wabbaseka Tucker school district in 1983, then the Altheimer-Sherrill and Wabbaseka Tucker school districts consolidated into Altheimer Unified in 1993, which in turn consolidated into Dollarway in 2006. Therefore this district serves Tucker and Plum Bayou.</ref> and [[Wright, Arkansas|Wright]].<ref name=PBCommSchoolClosurehitcomm/>

It merged into the [[Pine Bluff School District]] effective July 1, 2021.

==History==
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===The Beginning===
It was named after Dollarway Road,<ref name=Pickhardtp358>Pickhardt, p. 358.</ref> with a [[one room school|one-room school]] for white students opening in 1914. Initially the district only operated elementary and junior high school level education and was racially segregated; religious entities educated black students in the district's beginnings. By the mid-20th century black students were educated in area schools for black children and continued to [[Pine Bluff School District]]'s [[Merrill High School (Arkansas)|Merrill High School]], while white students attended the Dollarway School and then had a choice between [[Pine Bluff High School]] in the Pine Bluff district, [[Watson Chapel High School]] in the [[Watson Chapel School District]], and [[White Hall High School]] in the [[White Hall School District]].<ref name=Pickhardtp359>Pickhardt, p. 359.</ref> After [[World War II]] African-Americans moved into the district to work at the [[Pine Bluff Arsenal]], prompting the district to build new schools to accommodate them.<ref name=Pickhardtp360>Pickhardt, p. 360.</ref>

Dollarway annexed the Hardin school district in 1948<!--two years after the 1946 fire-->.<ref name=Pickhardtp385>Pickhardt, p. 385.</ref> The four black schools were combined into Townsend Park Elementary School, which opened in 1951.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/>

===The Civil Rights Movement===
In 1954 the district board refused a request to have racially integrated classes made by several black parents and [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) member William Dove.<ref name=Pickhardtp361362>Pickhardt, 361-362.</ref>

In 1955 the district opened a high school for black children, [[Townsend Park High School]], and in 1957 it opened [[Dollarway High School]] for white children, partly because in 1955 the Pine Bluff district stopped taking Dollarway students.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/> The Dollarway district continued to oppose desegregation, with Dove being refused a second time in 1957, as the [[Brown v. Board of Education#Brown II|Brown II]] decision in the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] allowed Southern school districts to choose their paces of desegregation.<ref name=Pickhardtp362363>Pickhardt, p. 362-363.</ref> John B. Pickhardt, an alumnus of the [[University of Arkansas, Fayetteville]], stated that the district was already spending less per capita to educate black students than white ones and so "there was little economic incentive to integrate".<ref name=Pickhardtp361>Pickhardt, p. 361.</ref>

In June 1959 black parents sued the district after it kept refusing desegregation requests.<ref name=Pickhardtp363>Pickhardt, p. 363.</ref> Judge [[Axel J. Beck]] of the [[Eastern District of Arkansas]] ordered the district to allow three black children to attend Dollarway High effective fall 1959, starting anti-integration efforts in the district.<ref name=Pickhardtp364365>Pickhardt, p. 364-365.</ref> However Dollarway schools remained segregated for 1959-1960 due to a stay in the courts.<ref>Pickhardt, p. 366.</ref> The district enacted testing for black students who wished to transfer.<ref>Pickhardt, p. 369.</ref> Dollarway Elementary began hosting black students on September 7, 1960, with no incidents of violence occurring.<ref name=Pickhardtp370>Pickhardt, p. 370.</ref> The first black student at Dollarway High began attending in January 1963.<ref name=Pickhardtp377>Pickhardt, p. 377.</ref>

Pickhardt stated that in the 1960s the Dollarway district board of directors allowed small numbers of black students to white classes, something area anti-racial integration groups did not oppose, and that such groups did not instigate violence. This meant that little negative press appeared in the newspapers and slowed the rate at which black students appeared in area schools.<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> In 1964 there were two black students in majority white schools, making Dollarway district have the second lowest percentage of black students in mostly white schools of the 21 school districts in the state that already began the integration process. Of those 21 districts it was one of two that had a population of over 30% African-American.<ref name=Pickhardtp381>Pickhardt, p. 381.</ref> As a result of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], the district created a new desegregation plan involving "freedom of choice" where parents choose which school their children will attend.<ref name=Pickhardtp382>Pickhardt, p. 382.</ref> Due to still relatively low numbers of black students attending white schools, Pickhardt wrote that the freedom of choice plan effectively kept races separate. Late 1960s court cases however forced districts to change their freedom of choice plans to outright combine schools, and Henley ordered changes to the school system effective 1969.<ref name=Pickhardtp383>Pickhardt, p. 383.</ref>

Some Hardin parents advocated for re-separating the Hardin school district; on September 11, 1969, they voted to leave the Dollarway district, with the county board of education making a move to change funding.<ref name=Pickhardtp385/> The vote to separate was on a narrow margin. However the [[US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas]] blocked the split on the grounds that it was interfering with desegregation efforts as those were based upon the Hardin staying in the district; the court stated that Hardin could split again once desegregation efforts ended.<ref name=Legalcase>{{cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/308/352/1568474/|title=Burleson v. COUNTY BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS OF JEFFERSON CO., 308 F. Supp. 352 (E.D. Ark. 1970)|publisher=[[Justia]]|access-date=2021-02-25}}</ref> Pickhardt wrote that opposition to being in Dollarway had built up over decades partly due to the 1964 closure of the Hardin school and partly because the Dollarway board of education chose not to appoint anybody from Hardin to fill a vacancy, even though the perception elsewhere in the district was that Hardin residents did not want racially integrated schools.<ref name=Pickhardtp385/>

Schools were combined for grades 7-12 effective 1969. Judge [[J. Smith Henley]], seeing that the district did not put enough white students in Townsend Park elementary schools, ordered elementary schools combined effective 1970.<ref name=Pickhardtp386>Pickhardt, p. 386.</ref> [[White flight]] occurred over several decades.<ref name=Pickhardtp387>Pickhardt, p. 387.</ref>

===1970s to 2020===
In 1979 the Jefferson County School District dissolved, with a portion of the students going to the Dollarway school district.<ref name=Goatcherp14>{{cite web|last=Goatcher|first=Truett|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED458075.pdf|title=School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?|publisher=Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators|date=January 1999|page=14 (PDF p. 17/27)}}</ref>

In 2006 the Dollarway district was in financial distress.<ref name=CaseStudp29>"School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School," p. 29 (PDF p. 31/50).</ref>

The [[Altheimer Unified School District]] consolidated into the Dollarway School District on July 10, 2006.<ref name=Consolfrom1983/> The State of Arkansas had demanded that the Altheimer district merge with another district as the Altheimer district's financial situation had deteriorated. The board of the Dollarway district, the only one to agree to a merger with Altheimer,<ref name=CaseStudp29/> formally asked the state to give the Altheimer territory to Dollarway the previous May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/5-19-06.doc|title=Official Board Minutes Special Called Meeting Friday, May 19, 2006|publisher=Dollarway School District|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513125153/http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/5-19-06.doc|access-date=2021-02-26|archive-date=2008-05-13}}</ref> and the Altheimer board also agreed to the consolidation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/SBE_Agendas/2006/Agenda_2006_7_10_Meeting.pdf|title=AGENDA|publisher=[[Arkansas State Board of Education]]|date=2006-07-10|pages=1–2/269|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227222127/https://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/SBE_Agendas/2006/Agenda_2006_7_10_Meeting.pdf|access-date=2021-02-26|archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref>  This consolidation meant that small towns and rural areas in northern Jefferson County, including Altheimer, Sherrill, Wabbaseka, Tucker, and Plum Bayou, became a part of the district.<ref name=Censusmap/><ref name=Consolfrom1983/> For a period the consolidated district had two taxation rates, one for the original Dollarway district and one for the former Altheimer Unified.<ref>"[https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ar-supreme-court/1299623.html DOLLARWAY PATRONS FOR BETTER SCHOOLS v. DOLLARWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT]." At [[FindLaw]]. Retrieved on August 2, 2017.</ref> In addition the district operated two bus mechanic stops, with the Pine Bluff one serving the majority of the population of the district and the Altheimer one moving children from the Altheimer area to the schools in Pine Bluff.<ref name=PBCommSchoolClosurehitcomm/> There were two interim board members to represent the Altheimer area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/7-18-06.doc|title=Official Board Minutes Special Called Meeting Tuesday, July 18, 2006|publisher=Dollarway School District|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513124230/http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/7-18-06.doc|access-date=2021-02-26|archive-date=2008-05-13}}</ref> The Dollarway district, in 2007, was no longer in financial distress partly because the State of Arkansas gave the district $1,700,000 to help the district absorb the Altheimer district.<ref name=CaseStudp2930>"School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School," p. 29-30 (PDF p. 31-32/50).</ref>

From about 2008 to 2018, the poor economy of Pine Bluff prompted parents to leave the area, and accordingly, Dollarway district officials have an estimate of an enrollment decline of about 900 for the period.<ref name=BriggsShakarioutlines>{{cite web|last=Briggs|first=Shakari|url=https://www.pbcommercial.com/news/20180129/dollarway-school-district-outlines-master-facilities-plan|title=Dollarway School District outlines master facilities plan|newspaper=[[Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2018-01-29|access-date=2021-02-25}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A 2011 State of Arkansas legislative research document stated that additionally the Dollarway district lost enrollment while the Watson Chapel and White Hall school districts' enrollment remained constant, and it concluded that Dollarway students were leaving to go to those districts and [[private schools]] and [[charter schools]].<ref name=CaseStudp2829>"School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School," p. 28-29 (PDF p. 30-31/50).</ref> Superintendent Arthur Tucker stated, as paraphrased by the document, "he believes some of these losses result from the poor reputation the Dollarway School District has in the area and the rundown school facilities."<ref name=CaseStudp29/> The legislative document stated, in regards to whether to first prioritize academic improvement or repairing the buildings, "there is little consensus about which part of the problem to address first."<ref name=CaseStudp28>"School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School," p. 28 (PDF p. 30/50).</ref> By 2015 a millage increase had been voted down so the majority of the board was reluctant to put another on the ballot.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hutter|first=David|url=https://pbcommercial.com/news/local/opinions-differ-state-dollarway-facilities|title=Opinions differ on state of Dollarway facilities|newspaper=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2015-10-17|access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref>

The [[Arkansas Department of Education]] took control of the school district in 2012 due to failing to meet state education guidelines. In 2014 state control ended and the school board resumed operations.<ref name=Hardyschoolsout>{{cite news|author=Hardy, Benjamin|url=https://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/schools-out-forever/Content?oid=4511998|title=School's out forever|newspaper=[[Arkansas Times]]|date=2016-07-28|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> State control resumed in 2015 due to low test scores.<ref>{{cite news|author=Brantley, Max|url=https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/12/10/state-takes-over-dollarway-school-district|title=State takes over Dollarway School District|newspaper=[[Arkansas Times]]|date=2015-12-10|access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref> The State of Arkansas designated the school district as being in "academic distress" from 2011 until 2016, and after an audit found issues in financial reporting, in April 2016 the Arkansas Board of Education also ruled that the district was in "fiscal distress".<ref name="Hardyschoolsout"/>

The district held a centennial celebration in 2014 after band director Brandon Shorter read an article in the ''[[Arkansas Historical Quarterly]]'' that gave the year of establishment in 1914 and he verified that information, prompting him and his colleagues to organize a committee for the centennial.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hutter|first=David|url=https://www.pbcommercial.com/news/local/dollarway-school-district-celebrates-centennial|title=Dollarway School District celebrates centennial|newspaper=[[Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2014-10-17|access-date=2021-02-25}}</ref>

{{Asof|2015}} the Dollarway School Board exempted the district from a state law that normally allows parents in one school district to have their children sent to attend schools in another school district. Parents from seven families, including the president of the Dollarway Parent Teacher Organization, Annie Bryant, argued against the exemption; Bryant stated that due to the large number of students on free or reduced lunch, it was clear that the students had no other choice but to go to public schools, and therefore the district ought to allow transfers. As of that year there were no persons requesting that their children be transferred from another school district to the Dollarway district.<ref name=PBCom>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbcommercial.com/article/20150522/NEWS/305229936|title=Dollarway parents are upset about not being allowed to transfer children to another district|publisher=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2015-05-22|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref>

===Takeover and closure===
In 2015 the [[Arkansas State Board of Education]] took control of the district. Barbara Warren became superintendent as per the school board naming her to the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://katv.com/news/local/arkansas-dollarway-school-district-taken-over-by-state|title=Arkansas' Dollarway School District taken over by state|agency=[[Associated Press]]|publisher=[[KATV]]|date=2015-12-10|access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref> The ''[[Pine Bluff Commercial]]'' praised the state takeover and criticized the previously elected school boards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbcommercial.com/article/20151213/OPINION/312139999|title=Dollarway failed yet again|newspaper=[[Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2015-12-13|access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref> In 2020 the district had 921 students.<ref>{{cite web|last=Howell|first=Cynthia|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/nov/14/state-weighs-4-options-after-5-years-at-helm-of/?news-arkansas|title=State weighs 4 options after 5 years at helm of Dollarway schools|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=2020-11-14|access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref>

In December 2020 the Arkansas State Board of Education ruled that the Dollarway School District should merge into the [[Pine Bluff School District]] as of July 1, 2021; all seven Arkansas state education board members approved this. According to the consolidation plan, all schools of the two districts will continue to operate post-merger.<ref>{{cite web|last=Howell|first=Cynthia|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/dec/11/state-votes-to-combine-dollarway-pb-schools/|title=State votes to combine Dollarway, Pine Bluff schools|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=2020-12-11|access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref> Ryan Watley, the CEO of the organization Go Forward Pine Bluff, argued that Dollarway no longer was viable as an individual school district. Joni Alexander, a member of the Pine Bluff City Council, argued that the post-merger school district boundaries in effect privilege students in the [[White Hall School District]]; he pointed to the [[White Hall, Arkansas|City of White Hall]] having fewer people than the City of Pine Bluff.<ref>{{cite web|last=Colvin|first=Eplunus|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com:443/news/2020/dec/12/varying-feelings-aired-on-merger/|title=Varying feelings aired on merger|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=2020-12-12|access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref>

The ''[[Pine Bluff Commercial]]'' stated that there was a lack of comment in the Arkansas state board of Education meetings and that there was a "lack of any significant outcry from patrons or anyone else for that matter."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/dec/06/dollarway-decision-near/|title=OPINION <nowiki>|</nowiki> EDITORIAL: Dollarway decision near|agency=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|newspaper=[[Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]|date=2020-12-06|access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref>

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==Geography==
The pre-Altheimer merger boundaries included two non-contiguous portions, each between the [[White Hall School District]]. The part to the west included [[unincorporated areas]] such as [[Hardin, Arkansas|Hardin]], and the part to the east mostly included unincorporated areas between the [[Arkansas River]] and Pine Bluff, with a northern part of Pine Bluff included.<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> The western section also includes a portion of [[White Hall, Arkansas|White Hall]].<ref name=Censusmap/> The area that was the sum of the district between 1948 and 2006 has a total of {{convert|48|sqmi|sqkm}} of area.<ref name=Squaremileage>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/SBE_Agendas/2006/Agenda_2006_7_10_Meeting.pdf|title=AGENDA|publisher=[[Arkansas State Board of Education]]|date=2006-07-10|page=149/269|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227222127/https://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/SBE_Agendas/2006/Agenda_2006_7_10_Meeting.pdf|access-date=2021-02-26|archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dollarway.org/admin/anstreprt.htm|title=Arkansas Statistical Report 2001-2002|publisher=Dollarway School District|date=2004-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040628062646/http://dollarway.org/admin/anstreprt.htm|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2004-06-28}}</ref>

The merged area from the Altheimer district, with an additional {{convert|333|sqmi|sqkm}} of area,<ref name=Squaremileage/> includes the municipalities of [[Altheimer, Arkansas|Altheimer]], [[Sherrill, Arkansas|Sherrill]], and [[Wabbaseka, Arkansas|Wabbaseka]].<ref name=Censusmap/> It also includes the [[unincorporated areas]] of [[Lake Dick, Arkansas|Lake Dick]], [[New Gascony, Arkansas|New Gascony]],<ref name=JeffHighwayMap/> [[Pastoria, Arkansas|Pastoria]], [[Plum Bayou, Arkansas|Plum Bayou]],<ref name=PBCommSchoolClosurehitcomm/> [[Sweden, Arkansas|Sweden]],<ref name=JeffHighwayMap/> [[Tucker, Arkansas|Tucker]],<ref name=Consolfrom1983/> and [[Wright, Arkansas|Wright]].<ref name=PBCommSchoolClosurehitcomm/>

==Demographics==
In the mid-1950s about 50% of the students were black and about 50% were white, with the former concentrated east of Dollarway Road, and the latter west of Dollarway Road, with the western Hardin part of the district predominately white.<ref name=Pickhardtp359/> In the 1957–1958 school year it had about 2,060 students. The black Townsend Park campuses together had about 1,043 while the white Dollarway campuses together had about 1,017 students.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/>

In fall 1968 the Dollarway campuses had 1,328 students, with 64 being black.<ref name=Pickhardtp382/> Of the 48 teachers, four were black.<ref name=Pickhardtp382383>Pickhardt, p. 382-383.</ref> All 1,679 Townsend Park students were black, and of the 59 teachers, three were white.<ref name=Pickhardtp383>Pickhardt, p. 383.</ref> Circa 1969 there were about 270 Hardin students at Dollarway schools, 5 of them being black.<ref name=Pickhardtp385/>

In 1970 the district was about 55% black and each school, now fully integrated, had roughly the same proportion.<ref name=Pickhardtp386/> The district at the time had a total of 114<!--57+57--> teachers, half black and half white, with each school having roughly that proportion of teachers by race.<ref name=Pickhardtp386387>Pickhardt, p. 386-387.</ref> Due to [[white flight]] the number of white students declined. 92% of the students were black as of 2007.<ref name=Pickhardtp387/>

In 2006 the district had 2,037 students in grades K-12, and 92 preschool students.<ref name=Boardmtg09122006>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/9-12-06.doc|title=Official Board Minutes Tuesday, September 12, 2006|publisher=Dollarway School District|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513124915/http://www.dollarway.org/Old%20Minutes/9-12-06.doc|access-date=2021-02-26|archive-date=2008-05-13}}</ref>

In 2015, according to Bryant, about 98% of the district's students were on free or reduced lunches.<ref name=PBCom/> In 2015-2016 it had almost 1,200 students.<ref name=Murrellleadersadd>{{cite web|last=Murrell|first=I.C.|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com:443/news/2021/may/27/leaders-address-districts-merger/|title=Leaders address districts' merger|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=2021-05-27|accessdate=2021-07-04}}</ref>

Circa 2016 it had 1,171 students.<ref name=Colvinchiefforesees>{{cite web|last=Colvin|first=Eplunus|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/dec/03/schools-chief-foresees-dollarway-challenges/|title=Schools chief foresees Dollarway challenges|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]|date=2020-12-03|access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> In May 2020 that figure was down to 941,<ref name=HowellWarren>{{cite web|last=Howell|first=Cynthia|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/may/23/dollarway-s-warren-chosen-to-lead-pb-sc/|title=Dollarway's Warren chosen to lead Pine Bluff School District too|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]|date=2020-05-23|access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> and by December that year it was down to 921. Its projected 2021 enrollment was 904.<ref name=Colvinchiefforesees/> 901 was the enrollment in the final school year.<ref name=Murrellleadersadd/> The ''[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]'' stated that according to analysts, the district's cash reserves eroded because it was not pulling in as much funds as the student enrollment had declined and that bankruptcy was a possibility within several years in the future.<ref name=Colvinchiefforesees/>

==Operations==
In the mid-1950s the district was spending less to educate black students than to educate white students, with $120 per capita on the former and $157 per capita on the latter.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/>

The district headquarters was, in 2012, on the same campus as Dollarway High.<!--Since then Dollarway High moved to the former middle school--> The 2012 Arkansas legislative document stated that as a result the workers in the two facilities were in "close proximity".<ref name=CaseStudp28/>

==Academic performance==
Dollarway School District is located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and operates five schools, serving students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. According to GreatSchools, a larger number of schools in this district are rated below average in school quality. However, students at many of the schools in this district are making about the same academic progress as the state average.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dollarway School District |url=https://www.greatschools.org/arkansas/pine-bluff/dollarway-school-district/ |website=greatschool.org}}</ref>

Dollarway High School is the only high school in the Dollarway School District and is ranked 221-267th within Arkansas 2. The AP® participation rate at Dollarway High School is 26% and the total minority enrollment is 97% 2. The graduation rate at Dollarway High School is 75%, which is well below the state median 2.

In a December 11th article, state education Secretary Johnny Key said that Dollarway “has made great strides” under Warren, noting progress in its academic program and financial management 3. “The district has made significant progress both fiscally and academically,” Key said at the time of the board vote 3.

== Schools ==
Open at time of dissolution:
* [[Dollarway High School]], serving grades 9 through 12.
* Robert F. Morehead Middle School, serving grades 5 through 8.
** Formerly Dollarway Junior High School,<ref name=ADE0203>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20030424080320/http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/2002_2003_AR_Edu_dir.pdf 2002-2003 Arkansas Education Directory]." [[Arkansas Department of Education]]. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. Page 65 (PDF p. 71/157). "DOLLARWAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL [...] 2602 FLUKER ST. PINE BLUFF, AR 71602"</ref> it started as a school for white students, established with funding from a federal grant awarded in 1952.<!--From the article: "In 1951[...]The next year, another grant[read after this]"--><ref name=Pickhardtp360/> It previously had grades 7-9 and circa 2002 it had about 412 students.<ref name=DollarwayHome20021128>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/|title=Home|publisher=Dollarway School District|date=2002-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128061417/http://www.dollarway.org/|access-date=2021-02-25|archive-date=2002-11-28}}</ref> By 2006 it was known as Dollarway Middle School and had 458 students.<ref name=Boardmtg09122006/> In 2016 it moved into the former Townsend Park Elementary School, while Dollarway High moved into the previous Morehead building.<ref name=DavidShedelleclar>{{cite web|author=Davis, Shedelle|url=http://www.pbcommercial.com/news/20160819/dollarway-school-district-clarifies-school-name-changes|title=Dollarway School District clarifies school name changes|publisher=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2016-08-19|access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref>
* James Matthews Elementary School, located in Pine Bluff and seservesrekindergarten through grade 4.
** It was built in 1987 on the former Pines Drive-In Movie Theater, with the kindergarten wing opening the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/matthews/matthistory.htm|title=School History|publisher=James Matthews Elementary School|date=2002-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020703201513/http://www.dollarway.org/matthews/matthistory.htm|access-date=2021-02-25|archive-date=2002-07-03}}</ref> Circa 2001 it had about 400 students,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/matthews/matthewwebhpage.htm|title=Home|publisher=Matthews Elementary School|date=2001-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011215133448/http://www.dollarway.org/matthews/matthewwebhpage.htm|access-date=2021-02-25|archive-date=2001-12-15}}</ref> and around that time it was only for grades K-2.<ref name=DollarwayHome20021128/> Circa 2002 this was down to 369.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dollarway.org/matthews/matthewwebhpage.htm|title=Home|publisher=Matthews Elementary School|date=2002-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020408061442/http://dollarway.org/matthews/matthewwebhpage.htm|access-date=2021-02-25|archive-date=2002-04-08}}</ref> In 2006 it had 283 students in grade school and 80 in preschool.<ref name=Boardmtg09122006/>

'''Closed prior to dissolution'''

; Secondary
* [[Altheimer-Sherrill High School]] and Altheimer Middle School, closed in 2007, located in [[Altheimer, Arkansas|Altheimer]]<ref name=Colvinclosing>{{cite web|last=Colvin|first=Eplunus|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/oct/02/closing-schools-took-life-out-of-altheimer/|title=Closing schools took life out of Altheimer, residents recall|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=2020-10-02|access-date=2021-02-24}}</ref>
* [[Townsend Park High School]]

; Elementary
* Altheimer–Martin Elementary School, located in Altheimer and serving prekindergarten through grade 5.
**Altheimer-Martin Elementary School, a Dollarway School District elementary school, occupied the former high school facility. The {{convert|30000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} building was built in 1987. It included a gymnasium.<ref name=Hardyschoolsout/> In 2006 it had 156 students in grade school and 12 in preschool.<ref name=Boardmtg09122006/> Up to 2013 the school's enrollment declined, and in 2013 the Dollarway superintendent decided that the school should be closed in light of the declining attendance,<ref name=Hardyschoolsout/> with 78 students in the school's final year.<ref name=Colvinclosing/> Since 2013 some property had been taken from the school building, and a lack of maintenance occurred. Altheimer mayor Zola Hudson stated a desire for the city government to repurpose the building.<ref name=Hardyschoolsout/> By 2018 the district was proceeding to donate the building to the city.<ref name=BriggsShakarioutlines/>
* Dollarway Elementary School, located west of Dollarway Road,<ref name=Pickhardtp358359>Pickhardt, p. 358-359.</ref> was a school for white children.<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> It and the junior high school had 629 students in 1958.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/> On September 7, 1960, it began hosting black students.<ref name=Pickhardtp370/> In 1969 Dollarway Elementary was about 70-80% white.<ref name=Pickhardtp384>Pickhardt, p. 384.</ref> Effective 1970 it became the school for all students in grades 1-2 for the district.<ref name=Pickhardtp386/>
* Hardin Elementary School, in the [[Hardin, Arkansas|Hardin]] community, was a school for white children.<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> The school closed in 1964. Hardin area residents did not like it when the school closed.<ref name=Pickhardtp385/> A legal document stated, "that building or its facilities came in need of substantial repairs or renovations which the District was unwilling or unable to make".<ref name=Legalcase/>
* Pinecrest Elementary School, in Pine Bluff<ref name=ADE0203/>
** It opened in 1961 for overflow students from the Hardin area.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/> In 1968 the school had 323 students and 11 teachers, with one each being black.<ref name=Pickhardtp383/> In 1969 Pinecrest Elementary was about 70-80% white.<ref name=Pickhardtp384/> Effective 1970 it became the school for all students in grade 3 for the district.<ref name=Pickhardtp386/> By circa 2001 it had 13 teachers and 206 students and was a grade 3-4 school for the entire district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarway.org/pinecrest/pinecrest.htm|title=Home|publisher=Pinecrest Elementary School|date=2001-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011215133235/http://www.dollarway.org/pinecrest/pinecrest.htm|access-date=2021-02-25|archive-date=2001-12-15}}</ref>
** In 2012 the Arkansas Delta Resource Center sought to begin using the former Pinecrest building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbcommercial.com/sections/news/news/local/delta-resource-center-seeks-open-new-facility-old-pinecrest-school.html|title=Delta Resource Center seeks to open new facility at old Pinecrest school|newspaper=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|date=2012-04-11|access-date=2021-02-25}}</ref>  By 2018 the campus was not in use. The district considered demolishing the building after selling the land.<ref name=BriggsShakarioutlines/>
* Townsend Park Elementary School, located in Pine Bluff,<ref name=ADE0203/> was a school for black children.<ref name=Pickhardtp358/> It was {{convert|1|mi|km}} east of Dollarway road.<ref name=Pickhardtp359/> It was built next to Merrill Park, named after Merrill High School principal William J. Townsend, after the district received a federal grant to do so in 1951.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/> It had 712 students in 1958.<ref name=Pickhardtp360/> In 1969 it had 15 white students,<ref name=Pickhardtp386/> even though Judge Henley wanted the school to be at least 23% white.<ref name=Pickhardtp384/> Effective 1970 it became the school for all students in grades 4-6 for the district.<ref name=Pickhardtp386/> By 2002 it had about 262 students and was for grades 5–6.<ref name=DollarwayHome20021128/> By 2006 it had north and south campuses, with each having 245 and 248 students, respectively.<ref name=Boardmtg09122006/>

== References ==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bureau/Document?type=pdf&source=education%2fK12/AdequacyReports/2012%2f2011-11-08&filename=02%20Case%20Study%20Adequacy%20Report,%20BLR|title=School Case Studies Wonder Elementary School Osceola Middle School Dollarway High School|publisher=State of Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research|date=November 2011|access-date=2021-02-26}}
* {{cite journal|last=Pickhardt|first=John B.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40543600|title=We Don't Intend to Have a Story: Integration in the Dollarway School District|journal=[[The Arkansas Historical Quarterly]]|publisher=[[Arkansas Historical Association]]|volume=68|issue=4|date=Winter 2009|pages=357–387|jstor=40543600}}

===Reference notes===
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==Further reading==
; Maps
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100618110223/http://argis.ualr.edu/arkansas_school_districts.pdf 2006-2007 School District Map of the State of Arkansas]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901193355/http://argis.ualr.edu/arkansas_school_districts.pdf 2004-2005 School District Map of the State of Arkansas]<!--There is also [https://web.archive.org/web/20050601035832/http://argis.ualr.edu/arkansas_school_districts.pdf Map of Arkansas School Districts pre-July 1, 2004] but the shape did not change then-->
* {{cite web|url=https://digitalheritage.arkansas.gov/school-district-maps/34/|title=Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954 Jefferson County, 1952-1954|work=Arkansas Digital Archives|publisher=[[Arkansas State Archives]]}} ([https://digitalheritage.arkansas.gov/context/school-district-maps/article/1033/type/native/viewcontent Download]) - Includes boundaries of the 1950s Dollarway School District and predecessor school districts which merged into the district at later stages
; Articles
* {{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/nov/15/whats-next-for-dollarway-is-a-hard-decision-for/|title=OPINION <nowiki>|</nowiki> EDITORIAL: What's next for Dollarway is a hard decision for all|agency=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]|date=2020-11-15}} - [https://www.pressreader.com/usa/arkansas-democrat-gazette/20201115/285791426114789 Available at] [[PressReader]]
* {{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/nov/15/barring-local-control-3-futures-dollarway/|title=Barring local control, 3 futures for Dollarway|agency=[[The Pine Bluff Commercial]]|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]]|date=2020-11-15}}
* {{cite web|url=https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Offices/public-school-accountability/district-support/dollarway-school-district-information-for-stakeholders|title=Dollarway School District Information for Stakeholders|publisher=[[Arkansas Department of Education]]}}
*http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=122&state=AR
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080118205038/http://balanceitoutarkansas.com/school_districts/dollarway_school_district
*https://web.archive.org/web/20090501035847/http://dwe.arkansas.gov/CareerandTechEducation/reportcards/dollarway.pdf
*http://client.aavirtualoffice.com/schools/districtView.asp?District=?:?>;{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}: <!-- Note: the character sequence "?:?>;:" (no quotes) MUST be included in the URI for IE7 to refer correctly -->
*http://local.arkansas.gov/school_district_info.php?district_id=1220
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071228060152/http://www.house.gov/list/press/ar04_ross/072507dollarway.html

== External links ==
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* [http://www.dollarwayschools.org/ Dollarway School District]
* [https://www.pinebluffschools.org/annexation-transition Annexation/Transition] - [[Pine Bluff School District]]
* [https://www.arkansasonline.com/topics/?eid=1348618055&ename=Dollarway%20School%20District&lang=en Index of articles] from the ''[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]''
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