HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL

HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL is one of the cozy 9-12 campuss in HAZEN, Arkansas, operated by HAZEN SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 229 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL sits 55% leaner than that benchmark.

Within HAZEN SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 544 students, HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Prairie County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 19.1%.

In the area at large, Prairie County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,646, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Prairie County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,202 students), HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HAZEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.

HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL has grew 27%, going from 181 students in 2018 to 229 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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