In 1928 Bentonville started building a new high school, which now known as Old High Middle School. The building is a combination of Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean Styles. The cost of the new school was $110,000. They used materials from the old high school in the building of the new high school, which meant students had no official school to attend in the interim. Classes were held in the Royal Theatre, Christian Church, Methodist Church, Baptist Church, M.E. Church South, and the Nazarene Church. The new school was a smaller version of Central high school in Little Rock.
First through twelfth grades moved into the school in April 1929. Soon after this move was complete the state started to require smaller schools to consolidate with larger school districts, which meant that around this time, Evening Star, Morning Star, Valley View, Summit, Dug Hill, and Miller Mars Hill schools were consolidated into the Bentonville school system. This consolidation was soon followed by Vaughn, Centerton, and Cave Springs as the state mandated. By this time the Bentonville school system was bursting at the seams. With the government’s help, the school was able to add an agricultural building and a gym to the school in the 1940’s.
In 1950 the school district built an elementary school (later named R.E. Baker) on NW Third Street which opened in the fall of 1951. This would solve some of the overcrowding problems for a number of years. From there the district has developed into the school system we have today. The “Old High” building was put on the National Register of Historic places in 1988.
First through twelfth grades moved into the school in April 1929. Soon after this move was complete the state started to require smaller schools to consolidate with larger school districts, which meant that around this time, Evening Star, Morning Star, Valley View, Summit, Dug Hill, and Miller Mars Hill schools were consolidated into the Bentonville school system. This consolidation was soon followed by Vaughn, Centerton, and Cave Springs as the state mandated. By this time the Bentonville school system was bursting at the seams. With the government’s help, the school was able to add an agricultural building and a gym to the school in the 1940’s.
In 1950 the school district built an elementary school (later named R.E. Baker) on NW Third Street which opened in the fall of 1951. This would solve some of the overcrowding problems for a number of years. From there the district has developed into the school system we have today. The “Old High” building was put on the National Register of Historic places in 1988.
This is a photo of the Queen's Float. It shows Betty Machen, Vannoy Burch (Queen), Deloris Bush, (Seated) Lynn Walton, Alice Williams, Ginger Marple, Cheryl Rife, Nada Allen, Bennie Sue Williamson, and Jamie Cawood.
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Shown here is Burger Motor Company donating a car to be used for the driver's education program in Bentonville. In the photo L to R: Coach Don Elliott; Carl Burger; George W. Patchell, Superintendent of Schools; and Coach Paul Miholland.
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Bentonville Science Fair 1958 held in the old Bentonville gymnasium
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Homecoming Parade - Front row (Left to Right): sitting on end Thad Wolfe, 38 Gary True, 88 Jim Powell, 61 Gene Staats, 23 Paul McDougal, 30 Kenneth McCurdy, 62 Gerald Snyder, 67 Charles Parker, 46 Bill Walker, 12 Robin Rowley, Charles Elzy, 24 Bob Webster, 25 Benny Snyder, 36 Leon Crouse, Orville Clift. Back row: 83 Don Gore, 56 Will Hammock, 81 Hank Holderbee, Jerry Lerdy, Harvey Ricketts, Jon Cannady, Toddy Walker, Bill Marple, Robert Floyd, 48 Bill Edwards, 76 Darryl Woolridge, Gene Reece, 44 Philip Haden.
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