It was nearly 27 months ago when the Arkansas Department of Education announced the Yellville-Summit School District was being placed on the state’s fiscally-distressed list. According to Yellville-Summit Superintendent Wes Henderson, the district has been removed from the list and is no longer considered to be in financial trouble.
Henderson was hired by Yellville-Summit the same month the district was put on the list. He says he was excited to learn of the district’s removal, and it was a team effort to be able to get that goal achieved.
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Yellville-Summit was originally placed on the list in April 2015. Henderson says since that time, the district had to develop a plan to improve its finances, and they’ve been able to to follow through on it.
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Henderson says another contributing factor to the improvement of the district’s finances is the recent growth in Yellville-Summit’s student body.
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As Henderson looks toward the future for the Yellville-Summit School District, he says he is seeing good things to come.
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Yellville-Summit is one of two districts in Arkansas recently removed from the list. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Guy-Perkins School District in Faulkner County is also considered to be out of fiscal distress.
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