ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER

ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER is a tiny four-year high school in ALEXANDER, Arkansas, one of the schools within DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES SCHOOL SYSTEM. The school works with 106 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 79% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER is one of 7 schools operated by DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES SCHOOL SYSTEM, a district that educates 241 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school records 29% White, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Saline County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 23.3%; actual is 0.6%, a gap of -22.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Saline County) records that median household earnings sit near $79,046, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Saline County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,022 students), ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER is one campus in the mix.

PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER's enrollment has edged up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 96 (now 106). White enrollment moved from 43% to 29% across the same window.

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