MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL

MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of micro-enrollment scale in MARVELL, Arkansas, part of MARVELL ELAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 99 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL sits 81% below that benchmark.

Within MARVELL ELAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 220 students, MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 5% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Phillips County as a whole is about 61% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.3%; MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL posts 4.6%, -17.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Phillips County put the typical household earns roughly $40,134 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 25%. Across Phillips County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,669 students), MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MARVELL-ELAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 13.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. MARVELL-ELAINE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 43% since 2018, when it stood at 174 (now 99). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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