LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 405 W. ACADEMY STREET, in LONOKE, Arkansas, LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized senior high that instructs 484 students (grades 9 through 12), part of LONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 4 schools in LONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,524 students total), LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest consists of 26% Black, 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Lonoke County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of -11.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lonoke County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,828 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lonoke County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,478 students), LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LONOKE PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LONOKE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 484). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 67% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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