Editing Morrilton, Arkansas (section)

==Education==

===Public schools===
The community's public school system is operated by the [[South Conway County School District]].  As of 2018, the district consists of five schools. The SCCSD public high school is [[Morrilton High School (Arkansas)|Morrilton High School]].

Morrilton's first public school for white students opened in 1881.  14 years later the first school for African-American students opened in 1895.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} In 1980 the East Side, Morrilton, and [[Plumerville, Arkansas|Plumerville]] School districts consolidated to form the new South Conway County district.<ref name=Goatcherp17>{{cite web|last=Goatcher|first=Truett|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED458075.pdf|title=School District Consolidation Will Save Millions of Dollars: Fact of Myth?|publisher=Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators|date=January 1999|page=17 (PDF p. 17/27)}}</ref>

===Private schools===
[[Sacred Heart Catholic School (Arkansas)|Sacred Heart Catholic School]] is the only private school in the city of Morrilton and was established in 1879.  It is one of only two private [[Roman Catholic]] schools in Arkansas that serves PreK-12.

===Colleges and universities===
Morrilton is home to the [[University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton]].

The city was home to Harding College, now [[Harding University]] of [[Searcy, Arkansas]], for about a decade in the 1920s and 1930s. The original campus of Harding University is now the [[Southern Christian Home]], a church-supported residential child care facility.

===Public libraries===
The Conway County Library is located at 101 West Church Street in Downtown Morrilton.  The library was established in 1897 by the Pathfinder Club.  It moved among members homes until 1916 when the Andrew Carnegie Foundation awarded the club a grant for a building.  The Conway County Library is one of two public libraries in the state of Arkansas functioning from its original Carnegie building.