BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL

BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL, a cozy secondary school in BALD KNOB, Arkansas, overseen by BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 326 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL sits 36% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,059 students total), BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with White County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.6%; this one comes in at 25.3%, -14.3 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (White County) shows that median household income runs about $55,249, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, White County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,342 students), of which BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 326). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 5.9:1 in 2025.

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