MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL

MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL, a modestly sized senior high in MOUNTAIN VIEW, Arkansas, operated by MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 337 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 510.

Across the 7 schools in MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,569 students total), MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Stone County put the typical household earns roughly $40,943 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Stone County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,569 students), MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 337). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 5.9:1 in 2025.

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