PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL

Set in PARAGOULD, Arkansas, PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL is a well-populated high school, operated by PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 881 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL sits 73% larger than that benchmark.

PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,166 students; PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL lists 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 20.4%.

In the surrounding community, Greene County reports that median household income runs about $57,839, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Greene County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,364 students), PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 912 (now 881). Over the same period, the White share declined from 86% to 71%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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