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The Garfield Elementary School is a historic school building on United States Route 62 in Garfield, Arkansas, near its junction with Arkansas Highway 127. It is a public elementary school of Rogers Public Schools.

It is a single-story rusticated stone building, built in 1941 to replace a nearby building which had fallen into disrepair. It is a T-shaped structure, with a long east–west section housing offices and classrooms, and a projecting auditorium to the rear. The prominent features of the main façade are two projecting castellated entrance porticos, which have raised parapets, and segmented-arch openings.[3]

Garfield Elementary feeds into Lingle Middle School and Rogers Heritage High School.[4]

History

Garfield Elementary School (the institution, not the building) was established in 1885.[5]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

The district researched the possibility of making the school compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act. The district staff wrote in a report in 2019 that doing so for Garfield Elementary would be "beyond expensive".[6]

A person who owned property in Garfield agreed to donate 20 acres (8.1 ha) to the Rogers School District so it could build a new facility, though the district has not yet determined if it wants to build a replacement facility on that site. The school district plans to close the existing Garfield school building and move students to another building that is scheduled to begin operations in 2024.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Garfield Elementary School". Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  3. ^ "NRHP nomination for Garfield Elementary School". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
  4. ^ "Feeder School Pattern" (PDF). Rogers Public Schools. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  5. ^ Darling, Anna (2022-02-09). "Garfield community raises concerns about future of historic elementary school". KNWA-TV. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  6. ^ a b Perozek, Dave (2022-09-18). "What's next for Garfield school? Community hears from superintendent". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Retrieved 2022-09-18.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_Elementary_School_(Garfield,_Arkansas)