PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH

PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH is one of the small four-year high schools in PALESTINE, Arkansas, one of the schools within PALESTINE WHEATLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 378 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

PALESTINE WHEATLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 826 students. PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 12% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.9:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, St. Francis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $42,574 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. In all, St. Francis County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,904 students), of which PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH is one.

PALESTINE-WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 6 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), PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALESTINE-WHEATLEY SENIOR HIGH has changed only slightly, going from 385 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 4.9:1 in 2025.

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