EARLE HIGH SCHOOL

EARLE HIGH SCHOOL operates as an one-room-style secondary school in EARLE, Arkansas, one of the schools within EARLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 176 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so EARLE HIGH SCHOOL sits 65% below that benchmark.

EARLE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 371 students; EARLE HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EARLE HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Crittenden County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, EARLE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.3%; actual is 6.8%, a gap of -15.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Crittenden County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,358 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Crittenden County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students), EARLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EARLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.3 miles away. On composite proficiency, EARLE HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EARLE HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 38%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 176 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 3.9:1 today.

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