Editing Hickory Ridge, Arkansas (section)

== Education ==
Public education for elementary and secondary students is provided by the [[Cross County School District]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st05_ar/c05037_cross/DC10SD_C05037_001.pdf|title=SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Cross County, AR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=February 27, 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107001027/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st05_ar/c05037_cross/DC10SD_C05037_001.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> which leads to graduation from [[Cross County High School (Arkansas)|Cross County High School]]. The district's mascot and athletic emblem is the Thunderbird.

The Cross County district was established in 1965 by the merger of the [[Cherry Valley, Arkansas|Cherry Valley]], Hickory Ridge, and [[Vanndale, Arkansas|Vanndale]] school districts.<ref name=Goatcherp14>{{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=11 (PDF p. 14/27)|access-date=September 2, 2024|archive-date=March 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328001827/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED458075.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> As a part of the Cross County district the community previously had its own elementary school, Hickory Ridge Elementary.<ref name=2001page>{{cite web|url=http://tbird.crsc.k12.ar.us/|title=Home|publisher=Cross County School District|date=April 2, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010402031428/http://tbird.crsc.k12.ar.us/|access-date=February 27, 2021|archive-date=April 2, 2001}}</ref>