POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is a close-knit senior high in POTTSVILLE, Arkansas, run under POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 404 students in grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,838 students. POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest is composed of 9% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Pope County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Pope County's rate of about 64%.

After controlling for student poverty, POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.0%; this one delivers 36.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pope County) records that median household earnings sit near $57,344, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Pope County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,311 students), POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 380 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 5.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.