HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL

As a compact high school in CAMDEN, Arkansas, HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 402 students from grades 7 through 12, overseen by HARMONY GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Ouachita). That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Within HARMONY GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Ouachita), which oversees 2 schools and 827 students, HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 15% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Ouachita County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.8:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ouachita County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ouachita County) records that the typical household earns roughly $49,268 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ouachita County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,268 students), HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARMONY GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 17.8%.

HARMONY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 73% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 4.8:1 today.

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