ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL

ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL, a small senior high in WILSON, Arkansas, one of the schools within RIVERCREST SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 351 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

Across the 3 schools in RIVERCREST SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,205 students total), ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL records that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 29% Black, 12% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mississippi County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mississippi County put median household income runs about $52,548, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Mississippi County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,930 students), ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RIVERCREST JUNIOR HIGH PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location. As a public charter, ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 39%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 64% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 5.8:1 in 2025.

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