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Newport School District (NSD) is a public school district based in Newport, Arkansas.Established in 1876, NSD supports more than 1,500 students in prekindergarten through grade 12 in the 2010–11 school year by employing more than 260 faculty and staff on a full time equivalent basis for its five schools.
The school's mascot is the Greyhound with black and orange as the school colors.. For 2020–21, the Newport Greyhounds compete in the state's 3A classification within the 3A West Conference of the Arkansas Activities Association (AAA).
Arkansas Highway 367 over the White River: Newport: part of the Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS 13: Newport Junior & Senior High School: Newport Junior & Senior High School: December 22, 1982 : 406 Wilkerson Dr.
Newport is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Arkansas, United States located on the White River, 84 miles (135 km) northeast of Little Rock. The population was 7,879 at the 2010 census .
This is a list of high schools in the state of Arkansas. All schools are comprehensive public high schools unless otherwise denoted as a charter school , magnet school , private school , or residential boarding school .
In the 1932–1933 school year, Arkansas had 3,086 school districts, with 1,990 of them each operating a school for white students that only employed a single teacher. Calvin R. Ledbetter Jr. of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock stated that the Great Depression caused a drop in government revenues and frustrated school consolidation.
Diaz is divided between the Newport School District and the Jackson County School District. [7] The portion of what is now the Diaz CDP that is in the Jackson County district was formerly in the Tuckerman School District. [8] On July 1, 1993, that district merged into the Jackson County district. [9]
The Grimes Unit and the McPherson Unit, prisons of the Arkansas Department of Correction, are located in Newport, off of Arkansas Highway 384, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of central Newport. [14] The prison houses the state's death row for women. [15] The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is the primary county-wide law enforcement agency.