POYEN HIGH SCHOOL

POYEN HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of tight-knit scale in POYEN, Arkansas, run under POYEN SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 264 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so POYEN HIGH SCHOOL sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

POYEN SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 557 students. POYEN HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, POYEN HIGH SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, POYEN HIGH SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, POYEN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Grant County shows median household income runs about $71,549, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grant County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,468 students), of which POYEN HIGH SCHOOL is one.

POYEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts POYEN HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 in 2025.

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