Editing Beebe, Arkansas (section)

== Education ==
The city's education corridor is among the most prominent aspects in Beebe, with the city's public schools grouped in an extensive campus situated across the street from [[Arkansas State University Beebe]]. Significant additions have been made to the campus since [[Tornado outbreak of January 21–23, 1999|January 1999]], when a powerful tornado destroyed nearly complete new school buildings and historic residential areas surrounding the downtown area. The public school district grew in 2004 when schools from nearby [[McRae, Arkansas|McRae]] were consolidated into the district, which today serves most of southwestern and south-central White County — proceeding westward to [[El Paso, Arkansas|El Paso]], eastward to [[Garner, Arkansas|Garner]], and to other communities in between. Beebe's district also includes the headquarters of a four-county educational service [[cooperative]] named for noted former U.S. Representative [[Wilbur Mills]], and located on the city's Main Street.

Public education is supported by the Beebe School District consisting of:
[[File:Beebe, AR 002.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Beebe High School]]
* [[Beebe High School]] (9-12)
* Beebe Junior High School (7-8)
* Beebe Middle School (5-6)
* Beebe Elementary School (1-4)
* Badger Elementary (2-4)
* Beebe Early Childhood School (KG-1)
* Badger Academy (7-12 alternative school)

Privately run day care and preschool services are also available in Beebe. In addition, Lighthouse [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] Church in eastern Beebe provides religious-based K-12 and post-secondary education.

Founded as the Junior Agricultural School of Central Arkansas in 1927, Arkansas State University Beebe's campus has evolved and grown to become a center for long-distance learning and technical trade programs in central Arkansas. The school has been affiliated with the [[Arkansas State University System]] since 1955. State Hall, the campus' administration building constructed in 1949, is among both the oldest buildings on the campus and in Beebe's educational community. In the fall of 2005, ASU-Beebe had the second highest enrollment among Arkansas's two-year colleges and universities, trailing only [[Pulaski Technical College]] in [[North Little Rock, Arkansas|North Little Rock]]. ASU-Beebe today is the parent campus to branch campuses in Searcy (at the former Foothills Vocational-Technical Institute) and Heber Springs, and an educational center inside [[Little Rock Air Force Base]] in Jacksonville.