ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL

ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized senior highs in ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas, operated by ARKADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 534 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 4 schools in ARKADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,285 students total), ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.6:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clark County (around 68%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.4%; actual is 24.9%, a gap of -16.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Clark County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,034 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 7 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 2,902 students).

GOZA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.1%.

ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARKADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL has increased 4%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

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