OARK HIGH SCHOOL

OARK HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in OARK, Arkansas, run under JASPER SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 77 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so OARK HIGH SCHOOL sits 85% smaller than that benchmark.

OARK HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by JASPER SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 884 students overall.

In terms of who attends, OARK HIGH SCHOOL logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, OARK HIGH SCHOOL lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.5:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OARK HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Johnson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $45,995 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. OARK HIGH SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 4,527 students).

The closest other public school is OARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, OARK HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. OARK HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 83 (now 77). White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 6.7:1 in 2018 to 5.5:1 in 2025.

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