BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL

BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL is one of the compact four-year high schools in HARRISON, Arkansas, overseen by BERGMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 297 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

BERGMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,102 students. BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 2% Native American.

Looking at school resources, BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL reports 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.8:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boone County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 49.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate median household income runs about $55,143, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boone County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,818 students), BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BERGMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BERGMAN HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 297). The White share of enrollment contracted from 95% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 3.8:1 in 2025.

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