LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 280 WOLF ST, in PEARCY, Arkansas, LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is a well-populated 9-12 campus that instructs 936 students (grades 10 through 12), overseen by LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 84% above the state mean of about 510.

Within LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 3,945 students, LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Garland County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Garland County shows median household earnings sit near $57,181, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Garland County (combined enrollment of about 14,391 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAKE HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 1,007 students in 2018 compared to 936 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.