GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL

GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL is one of the rural-scale secondary schools in GUY, Arkansas, overseen by GUY PERKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 155 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 70% smaller than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Across the 2 schools in GUY PERKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT (402 students total), GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 11% Black, 3% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Faulkner County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Faulkner County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,289 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Faulkner County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GUY-PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. GUY-PERKINS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 155). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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