LEE HIGH SCHOOL

LEE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit high school in MARIANNA, Arkansas, one of the schools within LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 281 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so LEE HIGH SCHOOL sits 45% below that benchmark.

Within LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 698 students, LEE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEE HIGH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Other groups include 7% White, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 55% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEE 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 10.3%, a residual of -12.0 points.

Across the wider county, Lee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $34,375 per year, 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 32%. In all, Lee County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 698 students), of which LEE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

ANNA STRONG LEARNING ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEE HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 11%, going from 314 students in 2018 to 281 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 5.5:1 today.

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