The school district encompasses 538.90 square miles (1,395.7 km2) of land in Searcy, Van Buren and Marion counties.
[5] The district serves all of Marshall and Leslie,[2] the unincorporated area of Witts Spring,[6] a small section of Dennard,[3] and the Searcy County portion of Big Flat.
[7] The Arkansas Legislature created the Marshall School District in 1909 as a special act.
They were: Bee Branch, Bohannon, Bryan, Canaan, Clark, Cooper, Cozahome, Dongola, Fair View, Flat Rock, Grandview, Happy Hollow, Hickory Hollow, Kimbrell Creek, Landis, Liberty Hall, Loafer's Glory, Maple Grove, Martin Box, O'Neal, Pine Grove, Pumpkin Flat, Rambo, Red Hill, Red Oak, Rock Creek, Rock Springs, Spring Creek, Walnut Grove, Watts, and Zack.
[5] Witts Springs Elementary closed in 2004 due to a low student enrollment.