CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL
CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL operates as an intimate 9-12 campus in CHERRY VALLEY, Arkansas, part of CROSS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 315 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 510.
Within CROSS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 730 students, CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Black, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cross County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.7%; this one delivers 37.6%, a residual of +14.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cross County put median household income runs about $50,863, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Cross County (combined enrollment of about 3,112 students).
CROSS COUNTY ELEMENTARY TECH ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.
The campus sits in a rural setting. As a public charter, CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CROSS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL A NEW TECH SCHOOL has rose 18%, going from 267 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.
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