Summary:
The Lawrence County School District in Arkansas has only one high school, Walnut Ridge High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 100 to 139 out of 291-305 Arkansas high schools between the 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 school years.
Walnut Ridge High School's academic performance is generally below the state average, with some exceptions. In 2024-2025, the school's 10th grade English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency rate of 36.8% was slightly above the state average of 34.2%, and its 9th grade ELA proficiency rate of 45.1% was also higher than the state average of 31.1%. However, the school's performance in other subjects, such as Algebra and Geometry, lags behind the state average. The school's 7th grade Mathematics proficiency rate of 47.7% in 2024-2025 was significantly higher than the state average of 39.3%.
The school faces some socioeconomic challenges, with 47.52% of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. Despite this, the school has a relatively low student-to-teacher ratio of 7.8 in the same year, and the Lawrence County School District spent $10,555 per student in the 2018-2019 school year. These factors suggest that the school may have access to adequate resources, but the uneven performance across grades and subjects suggests that the resources may not be optimally allocated or utilized.
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