BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL

BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of reasonably sized scale in BROOKLAND, Arkansas, run under BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 645 students in grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL sits 26% above that benchmark.

BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 3,213 students overall.

On demographics, BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 25% of students at BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Craighead County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.4%; actual is 23.5%, a gap of -25.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Craighead County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,548 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Craighead County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,332 students), of which BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 39% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 645). Class-load math has widened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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