ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL

ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a large secondary school in TEXARKANA, Arkansas, one of the schools within TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,092 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 114% larger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,830 students; ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 31% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Miller County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Miller County's rate of about 80%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.9%.

Across the wider county, Miller County reports that median household income runs about $48,836, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miller County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students), of which ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 1,009 students in 2018 compared to 1,092 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 40% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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