LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL

Set in MABELVALE, Arkansas, LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is a well-populated senior high, run under LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 2,045 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 301% bigger than the state mean of about 510.

Across the 40 schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT (22,320 students total), LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 170 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.4%; actual is 5.7%, a gap of -16.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) reports that median household income runs about $62,873, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ARKANSAS MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS ACADEMY (AMFRA), around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 11.6%.

LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

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