Pulaski County Special School District

Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD)
Location
925 East Dixon Road
Little Rock, Arkansas 77026
United States
Coordinates34°40′20.4″N 92°15′17.1″W / 34.672333°N 92.254750°W / 34.672333; -92.254750
District information
TypePublic (government funded)
GradesPK-12
EstablishedJuly 21, 1927 (1927-07-21)
SuperintendentDr. Charles McNulty
Accreditation(s)Arkansas Department of Education
Schools26 (4 high schools, 4 middle schools, 1 junior high, 17 elementary schools)
NCES District ID0511850[1]
Students and staff
Students12,000[1]
Teachers1,000[1]
Student–teacher ratio25 [1]
Other information
Websitewww.pcssd.org

Pulaski County Special School District No. 1[2] (PCSSD) is one of four public school districts in Pulaski County, Arkansas—along with the Little Rock School District, the North Little Rock School District, and the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District—accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education. PCSSD has its headquarters in Sweet Home, an unincorporated area near southeastern Little Rock; the headquarters has a Little Rock postal address.[3][4]

The current Pulaski County Special School District was established on July 21, 1927, by referendum pursuant of Act 152 of the 1927 Arkansas Acts by the Arkansas legislature joining thirty-eight independent school districts into a "special" school district. As of 2019–20, PCSSD has the sixth-highest student enrollment in the state.[5] Geographically, PCSSD is the state's fifth largest district and encompasses a total 729 square miles (1,890 km2), and includes most areas of the county—incorporated and unincorporated—excluding most areas within the city limits of Little Rock, Cammack Village, most areas within the city of North Little Rock, Jacksonville, and a section of McAlmont.

  1. ^ a b c d "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Pulaski CO. SPEC. School DIST". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. ^ "LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Plaintiff v. PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, et al. Defendants". Court Listener. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  3. ^ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Sweet Home CDP, AR" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 17, 2022. - 2010 map - Compare with the address of the headquarters.
  4. ^ "Home". Pulaski County Special School District. Retrieved September 17, 2022. 925 East Dixon Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 - Compare to the Census map. Despite the "Little Rock, Arkansas" address, the facility is not in the Little Rock city limits. [ As the City of Houston website stated in 1996, the U.S. Postal Service does not always correlate the city names of postal addresses to actual city limits.
  5. ^ "Enrollment Count by District". Little Rock: Arkansas Department of Education. 2019–2020. Retrieved November 11, 2019.