CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL

As a minimally staffed senior high in CLARENDON, Arkansas, CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL teaches 193 students from grades 7 through 12, run under CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL sits 62% below that benchmark.

CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 433 students. CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 12% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.3%; actual is 6.6%, a gap of -15.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that median household income runs about $43,214, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Monroe County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 865 students), of which CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 20.2%.

CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 203 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 33% to 28%. Class-load math has grew: from 7.2:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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