Summary:
The Hoxie School District in Hoxie, Arkansas, serves 860 students across two schools—Hoxie Elementary School (Pre-K through 6th grade) and Hoxie High School (7th through 12th grade)—in a community where 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, indicating high economic need.
Hoxie High School stands out as the stronger performer, showing a clear upward trajectory by improving from a 1-star rating to a 2-star rating and jumping 18 percentile points in state ranking over two years. It excels in 10th Grade English Language Arts (40.8% proficient vs. 37.2% state) and Biology (43.1% vs. 35.1% state), and benefits from an exceptionally low student-teacher ratio of 5:1, which supports personalized instruction. In contrast, Hoxie Elementary School has a much higher ratio of 18.1:1 and shows inconsistent performance—strong in early-grade Science (e.g., 4th Grade at 51.6% vs. 44.4% state) but struggling significantly in upper elementary, with 5th Grade English Language Arts at just 23% proficiency compared to the state’s 40.9%.
A critical weakness across the district is the "Algebra gap": only 16.9% of high school students are proficient in Algebra versus 36.9% statewide, with 8th grade proficiency at 30.8% versus 73.9% statewide, suggesting students may be placed in the course before they are ready. The high school’s graduation rate (85.9%) trails the state average (90.1%), though its dropout rate is very low at 0.5%. Overall, the district’s proficiency in English Language Arts (29.2%), Reading (35.3%), and Mathematics (35.4%) all fall below state averages, but the high school’s targeted improvements and resource allocation—spending $13,600 per student versus $11,444 at the elementary level—highlight a strategic focus that parents should weigh when considering the educational path from elementary to high school.
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