County Line School District

The County Line School District in Arkansas is a small, rural district with just two schools—County Line Elementary School (serving Pre-K through 6th grade) and County Line High School (serving 7th through 12th grade)—serving a total of 556 students, with nearly all students qualifying for free or reduced lunch.

The standout school is County Line Elementary School, which consistently outperforms both the district and state averages across all core subjects. In the 2025-2026 school year, it posted proficiency rates of 55.2% in ELA, 54.7% in Reading, 51.4% in Math, and 58% in Science—roughly 14 to 16 percentage points above the state average. The school has maintained a solid 4-star rating for three consecutive years, and its 6th-grade class is particularly strong, with proficiency rates nearly 30 points higher than the state average in ELA and Reading. In contrast, County Line High School struggles, scoring below state averages in all subjects, with especially weak performance in Geometry (16.1% proficiency) and Algebra (33.3%). The high school’s ranking has been volatile, dropping to 2 stars in 2024-2025 before recovering to 3 stars in 2025-2026.

A key paradox is the student-teacher ratio: the high school has a very low ratio of 5.4:1, yet its test scores are lower than the elementary school’s, which has a much higher ratio of 15.9:1. This suggests that the elementary school’s strong foundational teaching is not being sustained in the upper grades. Despite high poverty levels, the elementary school is a high-performing institution, while the high school shows bright spots only in specific areas like 9th-grade literacy and Biology. The district’s graduation rate of 89.6% is just below the state average, and the dropout rate is very low at 0.4%.