Sheridan High School (Arkansas)
| Sheridan High School | |
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| Address | |
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700 West Vine Street Sheridan, Arkansas 72150 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°18′42″N 92°24′28″W / 34.3118°N 92.4079°WCoordinates: 34°18′42″N 92°24′28″W / 34.3118°N 92.4079°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public comprehensive |
| Founded | 1913 |
| Status | Open |
| School district | Sheridan School District |
| CEEB code | 042265 |
| NCES School ID | 050001500997 |
| Faculty | 82.87 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,236 (2010–11) |
| Education system | ADE Smart Core |
| Classes offered | Regular, Advanced Placement (AP) |
| School color(s) |
Blue Gold |
| Song | O Sheridan High |
| Athletics conference | 7A/6A South (2012–14) |
| Mascot | Yellowjacket |
| Nickname | Jackets |
| Team name | Sheridan Yellowjackets |
| Accreditation | AdvancED |
| USNWR ranking |
Silver Medalist No. 21 (AR) No. 1,976 (USA) |
| National ranking | No. 1,271 of 2,008 |
| Yearbook | The Yellowjacket |
| Website | www |
Sheridan High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Sheridan, Arkansas, United States. It is one of two public high schools in Grant County and the sole high school administered by the Sheridan School District.
In 2012, Sheridan High School was nationally recognized as a Silver Medalist in the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools 2012 report, which ranked the school as the No. 1,976 high school in the nation and No. 21 in Arkansas. Sheridan High School was ranked No. 1,271 of 2,008 high schools in the 2012 Challenge Index high school scoring system with an index score of 1.683, which is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year.
Sheridan was a segregated school for African-Americans until the Brown v. Board of Education decision. At the time, Sheridan had around 199 African American residents out of the town's total population of 1898. On May 21, 1954 the local school board voted unanimously to integrate its twenty-one African-American students into its high school to avoid the $4,000 it would have cost the school board to send the African American students to Jefferson County. The white parents become extremely upset and called another vote the next night. At that vote, the board voted unanimously to segregate the local school. Community members in the area, still not happy, petitioned and forced four school board members to step down.
Next, the largest employer of African-Americans in the area offered to move the black families outside of Grant County to Malvern, at the employer's own expense, or burn their houses down. After the departure of the last African-American student from the city limits, the city bulldozed the African-American school; the remnants of the school were buried and the city no longer had a duty to integrate their schools.
In 1990, a series of student suicides, including one in a classroom at the high school, stunned the community and thrust Sheridan, Arkansas, into the national spotlight.
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