COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL

COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a compact secondary school in COVE, Arkansas, run under COSSATOT RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 388 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL sits 24% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in COSSATOT RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT (855 students total), COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 8.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Polk County shows the typical household earns roughly $49,191 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,063 students), of which COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is COSSATOT RIVER PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COSSATOT RIVER HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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