BENTON HIGH SCHOOL

BENTON HIGH SCHOOL is a sprawling high school in BENTON, Arkansas, part of BENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 1,298 students in grades 10 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 155% bigger than the state mean of about 510.

Within BENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 5,806 students, BENTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BENTON HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Saline County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, BENTON HIGH SCHOOL records 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting BENTON HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Saline County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BENTON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -11.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Saline County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,046, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saline County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,022 students), of which BENTON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

ANGIE GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BENTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 1,149 students in 2018 compared to 1,298 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the BENTON HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.