GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL

As a mid-sized four-year high school in MALVERN, Arkansas, GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL teaches 468 students from grades 7 through 12, part of GLEN ROSE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by GLEN ROSE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 1,302 students overall.

Looking at the student body, GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hot Spring County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.0%; GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL posts 23.7%, -16.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hot Spring County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,405 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 15 public schools in Hot Spring County (combined enrollment of about 5,410 students).

The closest other public school is GLEN ROSE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOL has ticked up 41%, going from 332 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 6.2:1 today.

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