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CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 35 of 100. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL
CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized four-year high school in CROSSETT, Arkansas, one of the schools within CROSSETT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 476 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by CROSSETT SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 1,620 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 36% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Ashley County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ashley County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.3%; actual is 16.1%, a gap of -24.2 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ashley County put median household income runs about $44,266, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ashley County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,317 students), CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CROSSETT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CROSSETT HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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