Mountainburg High School is a public high school

High school

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 in Mountainburg

Mountainburg, Arkansas

Mountainburg is a city in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 682 at the 2000 census....

, Crawford County, Arkansas

Arkansas

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. Enrollment in grades 9-12 is about 219.

The school colors are blue, white, and red. In the early 2000s, Mountainburg was one of several small Arkansas high schools for which it was challenging to field an 11-man football

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 team. The school canceled three games in 2002 because of injuries to players and was unable to field a team in 2003.

A building associated with the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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in 1992, but the listing was removed from the National Register in 2001.