Defunct: Schools & Academies

Alco School
The Alco School, located on State Highway 66 at Alco (Stone County), is a one-story, fieldstone-clad building ...
Arkadelphia Baptist Academy
The Arkadelphia Baptist Academy in Arkadelphia (Clark County) was one of many schools founded across the South...
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy, located in Arkadelphia (Clark County), was a co-educational elementary and s...
Bates School House
The Bates School House is located in the unincorporated community of Bates (Scott County). The schoolhouse was...
Beebe Colored School
One of the last physical structures in White County associated with the education of African Americans during ...
Booker T. Washington High School (Jonesboro)
Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) in Jonesboro (Craighead County), also known as Jonesboro Industrial Hig...
Boswell School
The Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the many government programs designed to help combat the econo...
Buford School Building
The Buford School Building at 4439 Buford Road near Mountain Home (Baxter County) is a single-story two-room s...
Caddo Valley Academy
Caddo Valley Academy (CVA) was founded in Womble (Montgomery County) in 1921. Though the private school was op...
Calico Rock Home Economics Building
The Calico Rock Home Economics Building, located on Second Street in Calico Rock (Izard County), was built in ...
Cedar Grove School No. 81
Located five miles north of Pocahontas (Randolph County) in the Brockett community is the Cedar Grove School N...
Christ Church Parochial and Industrial School
Christ Church Parochial and Industrial School was a private school for African-American children operated in F...
Clarke's Academy
Clarke’s Academy was a private school that operated between 1867 and 1905 in Berryville (Carroll County). Th...
Clarksville High School Building No. 1
The Clarksville High School Home Economics Building in Clarksville (Johnson County) was a one-story Craftsman-...
Coal Gap School
The Coal Gap School building is located in rural Benton County, approximately fifteen miles east of Rogers (Be...
Cold Springs School
aka: Hepsey School
The Cold Springs School, located in Cold Spring Hollow within the B...
Cold Water School
The Cold Water School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in the former v...
College Station Freedom School
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education marked the end of legally sanction...
Colored Industrial Institute
The Colored Industrial Institute in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was one of the first Catholic-supported scho...
Consolidated White River Academy
The Consolidated White River Academy arose in the late 1800s when several African-American church groups in th...
Cotton Plant Academy
Cotton Plant Academy, located in Cotton Plant (Woodruff County), was a co-educational boarding school operated...
Dwight Mission
Dwight Mission near Russellville (Pope County) was the first formal Protestant effort directed at the educatio...
Eros School Building
The Eros School Building was constructed around 1935, probably by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a D...
Everton School
The Everton School at Everton (Boone County), located on the corner of Main and Hill streets, was built in 193...
Fair View School
The Fair View School at 2367 Mill Creek Road in Russellville (Pope County) is a single-story, T-shaped buildin...
Fargo Agricultural School
Before the state of Arkansas made public funds available for segregated schools for black children, Floyd Brow...
Fishback School
Fishback School was established in 1885 as Washington County School District 68. At that time, the school was ...
Griffithville School
Griffithville School was a one-story, brick-veneered building constructed in 1939 with assistance from the Wor...
Helen Dunlap School for Mountain Girls
aka: Helen Dunlap Memorial School for Mountain Girls
The Helen Dunlap School for Mountain Girls, later known as the Hele...
Hinemon University School
Hinemon University School was established in 1890 at Monticello (Drew County) by an organization of local comm...
Horace Mann School Historic District
The Horace Mann School Historic District at Norfork (Baxter County) is a complex of four buildings constructed...
Hot Springs Normal and Industrial Institute
aka: Mebane Academy
The Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in th...