LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL

LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL is a rural-scale 9-12 campus in LEAD HILL, Arkansas, overseen by LEAD HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 185 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Within LEAD HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 370 students, LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Boone County (around 62%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.9%; this one delivers 23.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Boone County) records that the typical household earns roughly $55,143 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,818 students), of which LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one.

LEAD HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEAD HILL HIGH SCHOOL has edged up 11%, going from 166 students in 2018 to 185 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 today.

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