CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

As a close-knit secondary school in CAVE CITY, Arkansas, CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL teaches 375 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within CAVE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 26% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Across the 3 schools in CAVE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,239 students total), CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Sharp County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sharp County indicate the typical household earns roughly $44,637 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Sharp County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,738 students), CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CAVE CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CAREER AND COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area. As a public charter, CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. CAVE CITY HIGH CAREER & COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 375). Class-load math has fell: from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 5.9:1 in 2025.

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