ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL

ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL is one of the compact high schools in ROSE BUD, Arkansas, overseen by ROSE BUD SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 308 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Within ROSE BUD SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 707 students, ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for White County shows median household earnings sit near $55,249, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, White County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,342 students), of which ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ROSE BUD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 22%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 4.4:1 in 2025.

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