MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL

MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL operates as an one-room-style secondary school in MOUNT IDA, Arkansas, run under MOUNT IDA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 202 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 60% smaller than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Across the 2 schools in MOUNT IDA SCHOOL DISTRICT (420 students total), MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 79%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $48,906 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Montgomery County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,138 students), of which MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL is one.

BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 202 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.