MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 10 LESLEY KING DRIVE, in MAYFLOWER, Arkansas, MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL is a small secondary school that works with 348 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by MAYFLOWER SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

MAYFLOWER SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,015 students; MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder reads as 10% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Faulkner County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.8%; MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL posts 21.7%, -14.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Faulkner County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,289 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Faulkner County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MAYFLOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 13%, going from 402 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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