SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL

SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of cozy scale in IMBODEN, Arkansas, part of SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 398 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 854 students; SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.3:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Lawrence County indicate median household earnings sit near $44,882, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lawrence County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,293 students), of which SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL has rose 36%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

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