MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL

MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of modestly sized scale in MARMADUKE, Arkansas, operated by MARMADUKE SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 278 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 510.

Within MARMADUKE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 648 students, MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.5%; this one delivers 31.2%.

Across the wider county, Greene County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,839 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Greene County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,364 students), MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MARMADUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARMADUKE HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 21%, going from 351 students in 2018 to 278 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 4.4:1 today.

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