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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally
Chapter 13 - School Districts
Subchapter 15 - Creation of School District by Detaching Territory From Existing School District
§ 6-13-1502. Minimum area and attendance requirements
Universal Citation: AR Code § 6-13-1502 (2017)
- (a) A new school district may not be created in an area with fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) students in average daily membership.
- (b) An existing school district shall not be reduced by means of detachment to an area with fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) students in average daily membership.
- (c) A new school district to be created by detachment must only be made up of students from one (1) existing school district.
- (d) This subchapter shall apply only to school districts that:
- (1) Had an average daily membership of at least five thousand (5,000) students but not more than twenty thousand (20,000) students in the school year immediately preceding the detachment; or
- (2) Encompass a total area of four hundred and fifty square miles (450 sq. mi.) or more, now or in the future.
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