MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL

MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized secondary school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, part of PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 612 students in grades 9 through 12.

PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 12,586 students; MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL records that Black students make up the majority at 59%; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.9%; actual is 11.6%, a gap of -26.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) reports that median household income runs about $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 13.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 599 (now 612). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 12% to 26% over that span.

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