ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL

As a medium-sized senior high in ELKINS, Arkansas, ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL hosts 463 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within ELKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 4 schools in ELKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,462 students total), ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 8.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 39.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washington County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,639, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students).

The closest other public school is ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 433 (now 463). White enrollment moved from 90% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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