Summary:
The Pangburn School District is home to a single high school, Pangburn High School, which serves 326 students in grades 7 through 12 in a rural Arkansas community.
Pangburn High School offers a highly personalized learning environment with a very low student-teacher ratio of 5.8 to 1 and per-student spending of $13,093. The school boasts a strong graduation rate of 94.8% and an extremely low dropout rate of 0.3%. However, academic performance presents a mixed picture. The school saw a remarkable "math miracle," with overall math proficiency jumping from 24.7% to 46.2% in one year, now slightly above the state average of 44.1%. Yet, this success is not uniform; 9th-grade Algebra proficiency remains a critical weakness at just 18.2%, well below the state average of 25.3%. The school also excels in Biology, with 10th graders achieving a 50% proficiency rate, nearly 15 points above the state average. In contrast, English Language Arts (36%) and Reading (39%) proficiency lag behind state averages, and the school's state ranking dropped from the 83rd percentile to the 65th percentile in the latest year.
Key takeaways for parents include the school's inconsistent grade-level performance. For instance, 9th graders perform above the state average in Reading (45.9% vs. 40.6%), while 8th graders fall significantly behind (30.3% vs. 38.4%). This suggests potential differences in curriculum alignment or teacher effectiveness across grades. While the school is highly effective at keeping students on track to graduate, it struggles to ensure high academic mastery in core subjects like ELA and Reading. The significant resources invested in a low student-teacher ratio raise the question of whether they are being optimally deployed to address weaknesses in Algebra and 8th-grade Reading, where the school trails the state.
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