LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL

LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL is a cozy high school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, run under LISA ACADEMY. The school hosts 394 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 510 students per school, that is 23% leaner than typical.

LISA ACADEMY comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 4,292 students; LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 41% Hispanic, 11% White, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Pulaski County's 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LITTLE ROCK HALL STEAM MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 399 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 20% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.