Springdale Public Schools history

The Shiloh Baptist College was built on the ten acres of land in 1871.

The school failed financially and was sold to the Lutheran Church in 1885.

1892 - Springdale District rents lower rooms of school/church building for classrooms

In 1895 the building was sold for $2,500 to a stockholding company formed by concerned citizens of Springdale, of which Millard Berry was president and C. C. Phillips was secretary.

Later, in 1900, the teachers included Shinn, Smith, Miss Loula Matthews, Miss C.S. Stone, and Mrs.

The courts appointed W.H. Rollins Commissioner to execute the sale of the property to the highest bidder on November 13, 1901.

The high school in 1903 had only five graduates, but the first graduating class the year before had nine members.

The forerunner of the Parent-Teacher Association, the School Improvement Association, was also established in 1910.

Through a bequest by C.G. Dodson, a home economics cottage was built in 1931.

A home was donated in 1940 to the system and converted to a school known as Jefferson Elementary for first and second-grade students.

The district's most significant expansion came as a consequence of a 1947 law that required that each public school be aligned, with a high school.

In 1952, and one-story building (commonly referred to as the flat building) was constructed next to the three-story structure on the north campus of the high school.

On January 14, 1971 would-be burglar set the building on fire while trying to gain entry into the office safe.

Washington Elementary was closed in 1982 and is now primarily used to house specially funded programs including nursing and gifted education.

Tontitown Elementary School, scheduled to be closed at the end of the 1986-87 school year, was the last such "wing school" operated by the district.