JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 500 NORTH ELM STREET, in JUNCTION CITY, Arkansas, JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL is an intimate four-year high school that caters to 317 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by JUNCTION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 510.

JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by JUNCTION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 673 students overall.

Demographically, JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 47% Black. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,259 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Union County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,933 students), JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northeast Claiborne Charter, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 326 (now 317). Black enrollment moved from 36% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 4.7:1 in 2025.

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