DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL

DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL is one of the one-room-style senior highs in DERMOTT, Arkansas, part of DERMOTT SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 139 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

DERMOTT SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 289 students. DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL logs that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 53% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 10.0%, a residual of -12.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Chicot County shows the typical household earns roughly $39,045 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chicot County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,147 students), DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 145 students in 2018 compared to 139 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 4.8:1 in 2025.

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