MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES

MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES is one of the sprawling 9-12 campuss in MOUNTAIN HOME, Arkansas, part of MOUNTAIN HOME SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,523 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES sits 199% above that benchmark.

MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES is one of 6 schools operated by MOUNTAIN HOME SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 3,817 students overall.

On demographics, MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Baxter County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baxter County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Baxter County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,452, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES is one of 11 public schools in Baxter County (combined enrollment of about 4,984 students).

Nearest neighbor: HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES operates from a town-based location. MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES's enrollment has expanded 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,244 (now 1,523).

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