GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL

GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized secondary school in GOSNELL, Arkansas, run under GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 567 students in grades 7 through 12.

Across the 2 schools in GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,215 students total), GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 33% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Mississippi County's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mississippi County) records that the typical household earns roughly $52,548 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Mississippi County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,930 students), of which GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 16.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 606 (now 567). The White share of enrollment edged down from 67% to 54% over that span.

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