HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of the sprawling primary schools in MOUNTAIN HOME, Arkansas, run under MOUNTAIN HOME SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 837 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits 100% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in MOUNTAIN HOME SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,817 students total), HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Baxter County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $48,452 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baxter County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,984 students), HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 893 students in 2018 compared to 837 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.