HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL

HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment secondary school in HECTOR, Arkansas, part of HECTOR SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 227 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 55% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Across the 3 schools in HECTOR SCHOOL DISTRICT (695 students total), HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.3:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Pope County's rate of about 64%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pope County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,344, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pope County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,311 students), HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HECTOR MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. HECTOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 279 (now 227). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

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