WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL

WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, run under WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 593 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,552 students; WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 6% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 57% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Jefferson County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 37.3%; this one comes in at 10.2%, -27.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $51,096 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Jefferson County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students), WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 18.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 652 (now 593). Over the same period, the White share declined from 19% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.