YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL

Set in YELLVILLE, Arkansas, YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL is a small senior high, run under YELLVILLE SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 312 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

Across the 3 schools in YELLVILLE SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,041 students total), YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 3.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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), YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household income runs about $48,619, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Marion County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,874 students), YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: YELLVILLE-SUMMIT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YELLVILLE-SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 3.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.