Fordyce School District

School district in Arkansas, United States

Fordyce School District
Address
104 College Street Fordyce , Arkansas, 71742 United States
District information
Type	Public
Grades	PreK–12^[1]
NCES District ID	0506210^[1]
Students and staff
Students	770^[1]
Teachers	64.9^[1]
Staff	68.5^[1]
Student–teacher ratio	11.86^[1]
Other information
Website	fordyceschools.org

Fordyce School District 39 is a public school district in Fordyce, Arkansas, United States.

The school district encompasses 220.50 square miles (571.1 km²) of land,^{[citation needed]} in Dallas County and Calhoun County.

Most of the district is in Dallas County, and there it includes Fordyce, Ivan, and Princeton.^[2] The district extends into Calhoun County.^[3]

In 2014 Albert Snow, the superintendent of the Norphlet School District, was to become the Fordyce superintendent.^[4]

History

In 1965 the Dallas County School District dissolved, with a portion of the students going to the Fordyce school district.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for FORDYCE SCHOOL DISTRICT". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Dallas County, AR" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Calhoun County, AR" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 12, 2023. - Text list
^ Lyon, John (May 8, 2014). "Merger of Norphlet, Smackover school districts approved". Arkansas News. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
^ Goatcher, Truett (January 1999). "School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?" (PDF). Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators. p. 11 (PDF p. 14/27).