Ouachita River School District

🏆⚾🥎 GAME DAY ALERT! 🥎⚾🏆 The Acorn Lady Tigers and Tigers are hitting the road to take on Hector in an exciting night of softball and baseball action! 📅 Friday, April 11 th ⏰ First pitch at 4:30 PM 📍 Hector Sports Complex Come out and cheer on the Tigers as they bring the heat and battle for victory! Let’s pack the stands and show our support! 🐅🔥 #GoTigers #TigerPride #AHStigersSERVE

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Adrianna! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Jodie! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

ORSD Celebrates Dean of Students Appreciation Ouachita River School District celebrates our Dean of Students who serve and assist in leadership roles for the District. Your leadership, service and dedication are valued and appreciated! Thank you, Keith Willsey and Scott Bohlman! #orsdlifeprep Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

Game Day Alert! ⚾🐯 The Acorn Lady Tigers are ready to hit the field! They take on the Mansfield Lady Tigers today at 4:30 PM in what’s sure to be an exciting showdown. Come out, support the team, and enjoy some great softball action. Let’s go, Lady Tigers! 💛🖤 #TigerPride #GameDay

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Kohlea! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Luci! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

ATTENTION: ORSD Students, Parents, Staff and Community IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – School Make-Up Day Just a reminder! The following school make-up day is scheduled for the school closing on February 18, 2025: Monday, April 14, 2025 (make-up day for February 18th) School will be in regular session on the make-up day – 7:45 AM – 4:13 PM on the ORSD - Acorn and Oden campuses. If you have questions, please contact your child’s building office. Respectfully, Jerrall Strasner, ORSD Superintendent William Edwards II, ORSD Assistant Superintendent

ORSD Employment Opportunities The following positions are now open for the 2025-2026 school year: Lunchroom Tech - Oden Campus Lunchroom Tech - Acorn Campus If interested, please contact: Jerrall Strasner, Superintendent Ouachita River School District 143 Polk Road 96 Mena, AR 71953 (479) 394-2348

THANK YOU from Acorn FFA! The 3rd Annual Acorn FFA Consignment Auction was held at the Polk County Fairgrounds on Sunday afternoon, April 6, 2025. The event turned out to be successful for the Acorn FFA Chapter despite the bad weather in and around Polk County and other parts of Arkansas. The auction was originally scheduled for Saturday, April 5th at 10:00 a.m. but heavy rain and lightning forced us to postpone it until Sunday, April 6th at 12:00 noon. Although it was cold and inclement weather on Sunday, there was still a good turnout of local Acorn, Mena, and Polk County citizens who bought lots of items and really supported the Acorn High School FFA Chapter. Thank you for your generous support! We have a big list of people we would like to thank for making the auction a success. First of all, we say a big “thank you” to Jimmy Martin and the Martin Auction Company crew for organizing, advertising and conducting the event and all aspects of the auction. We want to thank all of the parents of Acorn FFA members who worked and helped with many various parts of our auction. Our students began on Friday unloading items brought in by the community. They tagged items and organized them in rows under direction of the event coordinators. Students cleaned and set up the concession area to prepare for the auction day. The day of the auction was a busy day for the student workers as they loaded items customers bought, ran tickets, or worked in the concession stand. After the auction was over, many of the students stayed to help people load up their goods. Student workers were Duncan Dill, Zach Neugent, George Monahan, Sam Casten, Haydyn Wells, Ben Kincaid, Tatelynn Wood, Camara Dill, Hailey Davis, Savannah Christian, Katie Neugent, Karli Davis, Blake Moore, Destiny Landry and Justis Wray. Student involvement in events like this one involves hard work, social skills, responsibility and dependability. This is what FFA is about, learning leadership skills through "hands on" activities. Jim Pennington Acorn High School Ag. – Ed. Instructor / FFA Advisor

🏃‍♂️ It’s Event Day for Acorn Junior Track! 🏃‍♀️ The Acorn junior track team is hitting the road to Waldron to compete today at 3:30 PM!

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Taylor! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Austin! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

Acorn High School Music Department AHS Choir Production - Nifty 50's Thursday, May 8, 2025 Friday, May 9, 2025 Saturday, May 10, 2025 7:00 PM on each date listed above Mary Davis Gym $5 Admission

ATTN: Oden High School Class of 2025 Seniors & Parents/Guardians OHS Senior Recognition Day Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:00 PM Bill Kelly Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #OHSwolvesSERVE

Game Day Alert! ⚾🐯 The Acorn Tigers are ready to hit the American Legion Field! They take on the Subiaco Trojans today at 4:30 PM in what’s sure to be an exciting showdown. Come out, support the team, and enjoy some great Baseball action. Let’s go, Tigers! 💛🖤 #TigerPride #GameDay

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Rebecca! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

CONGRATULATIONS AHS CLASS of 2025! We are proud of you, Kailee! Acorn High School Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00 PM Acorn Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

ATTN: Acorn High School Class of 2025 Seniors & Parents/Guardians AHS Senior Recognition Day All seniors recognized Wednesday, April 23, 2025 11:30 AM Acorn High School Gymnasium #orsdlifeprep #AHStigersSERVE

Happy National Librarian Appreciation Day to Mrs. Posey!!! We are so thankful and blessed to have you at Acorn Elementary. Thank you so much for EVERYTHING you do for our students and staff. You are the BEST!!!