PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA

As a very small high school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA works with 67 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by PREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS OF ARKANSAS. Compared to the state average of about 510 students per school, that is 87% leaner than typical.

Within PREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS OF ARKANSAS, which oversees 7 schools and 657 students, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 46% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Miller County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA tighter than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miller County (around 80%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.5%; actual is 12.3%, a gap of -32.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Miller County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,836, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA is one of 16 public schools in Miller County (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students).

The closest other public school is VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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