FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of the small four-year high schools in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas, part of FOUNTAIN LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 368 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL sits 28% below that benchmark.

FOUNTAIN LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,248 students. FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Garland County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. The state averages about 8.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Garland County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Garland County indicate median household income runs about $57,181, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Garland County (combined enrollment of about 14,391 students).

The closest other public school is FOUNTAIN LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site. FOUNTAIN LAKE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 22%: 470 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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