FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF

FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF, a minimally staffed four-year high school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, run under FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS, instructs 76 students, covering grades 9 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 85% leaner than the state mean of about 510.

FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,350 students. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF is one of those campuses.

On demographics, FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF records that nearly all students (96%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF higher than the state norm the norm. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $51,096, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Jefferson County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students), of which FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF is one.

FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL PINE BLUFF is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFF is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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