SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL

As an intimate secondary school in NORPHLET, Arkansas, SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL instructs 347 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by SMACKOVER NORPHLET SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 510.

Across the 3 schools in SMACKOVER NORPHLET SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,208 students total), SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL shows that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 20% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Union County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.7%; SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL posts 22.9%, -19.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Union County put median household earnings sit near $55,259, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Union County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,933 students), SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SMACKOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

SMACKOVER HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 342 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 5.2:1 today.

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