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Tucker, Arkansas
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 Tucker, Arkansas
Location in Arkansas
Tucker, Arkansas
Location in the United States
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| Country | United States |
| State | Arkansas |
| County | Jefferson |
| Elevation | 226 ft (69 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 55674 |
Tucker is an Unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas. It has an elevation of 226 ft (69 m) and is located 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Little Rock.
History
In 1871 John Woodfin Tucker established the Tucker Plantation, named after his wife, Sarah E. Tucker. The plantation, which mostly produced cotton, expanded to occupy 2,800 acres (1,100 ha). Paid farmworkers and resident sharecroppers worked the land. The Tucker family managed the post office and the store.
Demographics
Circa 1958, Tucker had 74 residents.
Education
Tucker is served by the Pine Bluff School District. Students are zoned to Park/Greenville School for preschool, James Matthews Elementary School, Robert F. Morehead Middle School, and Dollarway High School.
Up until the 1980s its school district was the Plum Bayou-Tucker School District, which was to be annexed by the Wabbaseka School District due to financial difficulties; the Plum Bayou-Tucker district was to be dissolved with Wabbaseka absorbing the new territory. On July 1, 1983 the consolidation into the Wabbaseka-Tucker School District occurred. For a period the district operated Tucker Elementary School. Later it served all students from its Wabbaseka school property.
On September 1, 1993, Wabbaseka Tucker consolidated into the Altheimer Unified School District; Altheimer Unified ended all use of the Wabbaseka school property in 1996. Altheimer Unified, thereafter, operated two schools: Martin Elementary School and Altheimer-Sherrill High School, both in Altheimer. The Altheimer Unified School District consolidated into the Dollarway School District on July 10, 2006. Altheimer-Sherrill High closed in 2007, with students moved to Dollarway High. Altheimer Martin Elementary School closed in 2013. From that point forward all students are bussed to Pine Bluff.
In December 2020 the Arkansas State Board of Education ruled that the Dollarway School District should merge into the Pine Bluff School District as of July 1, 2021; the post-merger school district began operating all existing schools from both districts. Accordingly the attendance boundary maps of the respective schools remained the same for the 2021-2022 school year, and all DSD territory became a part of the PBSD. The exception was with the pre-kindergarten levels, as all PBSD areas are now assigned to Forrest Park/Greenville School, including the territory from the former Dollarway district.
