CALENDAR

5-24 End of Fourth Quarter-Second Semester
5-27 Memorial Day
5-29 NHS Football Youth Camp (grades 2-6)
5-30 Partners in Education Luncheon
6-3 NHS Boys Basketball Camp 3rd-6th Grade

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Word of the Week:  Character: One's moral nature; moral strength; integrity

Quote of the Week:  "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out." Thomas Babington Macauley

Kindergarten Registration begins Monday, April 15, 2013

 

 

The Habit book of the month is Bully by Judith Caseley.  Ask your child to tell you about it.

Click here to read the latest edition of the Beard Bears Beat. 

Beard Office Phone Number:  646-0834

Address: 1600 Cavanaugh Rd., Fort Smith, AR 72908

Fast Facts

Beard Elementary opened its doors for the first time November 11, 1968. The school was named after Mr. Charles E. Beard.  He was an educator for 56 years.  In the Fort Smith School district he was the principal at Trusty, Spradling, Albert Pike, and Parker Elementary Schools.

We are a K-6 school with a current enrollment of 291. Our student population is approximately 73% Caucasian, 11% African American, 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 4% Native American.

Beard currently has eleven K-6 classroom teachers, a Kindergarten Early Intervention class, a first and second grade Opportunity Center, and a fifth/sixth Special Education self contained classroom. We also provide qualified staff in the areas of ELA, GATE, Title VII, literacy, Reading Recovery, special education resource, art, music, library media, physical education, speech, and counseling.

Beard is a Title I school.

Beard offers a breakfast and lunch summer program.

Our school colors are royal blue and white, and we are the Beard Bears.

 

 

This School is accredited by the North Central Association and the Arkansas Department of Education.

 

 
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