Summary:
Zip code 71826, located in Bradley, Arkansas, is home to a single high school, Bradley High School, which serves grades 7 through 12 with a small enrollment of 147 students and is part of the Emerson Taylor Bradley School District.
Bradley High School presents a mixed picture of academic performance. The school has experienced a notable decline in its state ranking over the past three years, dropping from a 5-star, 91st-percentile ranking to a 3-star, 65th-percentile ranking. However, it demonstrates exceptional strength in mathematics, with 2025-2026 ATLAS test proficiency rates in Mathematics (51.2%) and Algebra (52.9%) significantly outpacing state averages. An 8th-grade Mathematics score of 70% is particularly outstanding, nearly double the state average. In contrast, the school struggles in English Language Arts (33.8% vs. 39.4% state), Reading (35.1% vs. 40.4% state), and Biology (31.6% vs. 42.7% state), indicating an uneven distribution of academic strengths. The school maintains a very low student-teacher ratio of 6.7:1 and a per-student spending of $13,948, which supports personalized instruction, yet this investment has not translated into uniformly high performance across all subjects.
Despite the ranking decline, the school's graduation rate of 84.2% and a low dropout rate of 0.6% suggest strong student retention. The high percentage of students receiving free or reduced lunch (69.39%) indicates a significant level of economic disadvantage in the community. For parents, Bradley High School offers a small, intimate learning environment with clear strengths in math, but families should be aware of the challenges in English and science achievement and the recent downward trend in overall state rankings.
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