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Enrollment
1,054
High
DISTRICT 489 · STATE 510
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051044000762
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL
4207 RACE STREET, JONESBORO, AR 72404 · (870) 910-7805 · Craighead County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,054 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of Arkansas public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 8.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
745 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 296 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 292 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 245 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 219 | 21% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
20.6%
AR avg 34.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 35 of 100. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (15.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,054 | 70.7% | 15.8% |
| MARION HIGH SCHOOL MARION | 927 | 79.0% | 17.8% |
| ESTEM HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 676 | 61.7% | 29.9% |
| PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 1,072 | 68.2% | 28.0% |
| MARION JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MARION | 588 | 76.5% | 16.6% |
| MALVERN HIGH SCHOOL MALVERN | 559 | 73.5% | 25.3% |
Matched among Arkansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Craighead County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #239 of 272 | #8 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #231 of 280 ▲ 26 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,054 | #33 of 310 | #2 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #196 of 245 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.7% | #32 of 246 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.7% | #117 of 273 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.9% | #52 of 105 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,054
+57 (+6%) vs 2020
+203% since 1990-91, when it was 348
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,054 | 89.2 | 11.8:1 | 71% (745) |
| 2023-24 | 1,041 | 74.7 | 13.9:1 | 55% (575) |
| 2022-23 | 981 | 82.2 | 11.9:1 | 68% (663) |
| 2020-21 | 997 | 75 | 13.3:1 | 42% (414) |
| 2017-18 | 959 | 61.8 | 15.5:1 | 38% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 935 | 63 | 14.8:1 | 59% (555) |
| 2010-11 | 877 | 59 | 14.9:1 | 49% (426) |
| 2000-01 | 496 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 13% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 348 | 18 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL.
About NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in Arkansas, with an address in JONESBORO. It serves 1,054 students in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in Arkansas average about 510 students.
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL belongs to NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 8 schools and 3,910 students.
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL is 55% Black by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 25% White, 13% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Craighead County's population at about 17%. The school's diversity index is 62%, meaning two students picked at random have a 62% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 89.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.8:1. On average, high schools in Arkansas have 8.8:1, compared with 11.8:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 71% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 7% of Arkansas public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Arkansas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL scores 17.7 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 15.8%; the prediction is 33.5%.
Craighead County census figures show that the median household income is $59,548, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Craighead County is home to 37 public schools and about 20,332 public school students.
The nearest other public school, NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL places 7th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,054, a 6% increase from 997 in 2020-21. The ratio was 13.3:1 in 2020-21 and 11.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Craighead County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,249
Census ACS
Median income
$59,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
20,332 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 566 students
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTSElementary · 491 students
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 446 students
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIAElementary · 440 students
- FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARYElementary · 394 students
- NETTLETON STEAM INTERMEDIATEElementary · 313 students
Other schools in JONESBORO
- THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,505 students
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 756 students
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNETElementary · 731 students
- ANNIE CAMP JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 701 students
Other Nettleton High schools
One other US public school is named Nettleton High. NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Nettleton High SchoolNettleton, MS · 316 students
Nearby schools
- NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 566
- NETTLETON STEAM ELEMENTARY0.4 mi · 206
- NETTLETON STEAM INTERMEDIATE0.5 mi · 313
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA2.3 mi · 440
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS2.3 mi · 491
- FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARY2.3 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHow large is NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL?
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,054 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL serve?
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL have?
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL employs 89 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
How diverse is NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL?
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 25% White, 13% Hispanic, 55% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL in?
NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL is part of NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.