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City in Arkansas, United StatesWickes is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 637 at the 2020 census. Near Wickes is the Boggs Springs Youth Encampment of the American Baptist Association, a retreat of Missionary Baptist churches. Wickes has historic places such as the 100-year-old City Hall, and the Lighthouse Drive-in. Wickes is home to the Lawrence M. Magdovitz Memorial Library, a former U.S. Post Office that was donated to the Town of Wickes by the owner of the building in return for naming it after him.
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The public schools Wickes’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 62% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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