MARION HIGH SCHOOL

MARION HIGH SCHOOL is one of the expansive four-year high schools in MARION, Arkansas, one of the schools within MARION SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 927 students on its rolls from grades 10 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 510 students per school, that is 82% above typical.

MARION SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,888 students. MARION HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MARION HIGH SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Crittenden County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARION HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.9%; this one comes in at 15.3%, -14.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Crittenden County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $55,358 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Crittenden County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students), of which MARION HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MARION SEVENTH GRADE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARION HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.8%.

MARION HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARION HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 911 students in 2018 to 927 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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