MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL

MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL, a micro-enrollment four-year high school in MOUNTAINBURG, Arkansas, operated by MOUNTAINBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 185 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 510.

MOUNTAINBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 655 students. MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.4:1. The state averages about 8.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 97% of students at MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Crawford County) records that median household income runs about $64,132, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 10,496 students).

The closest other public school is MOUNTAINBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL BRAIN ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location. MOUNTAINBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 209 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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