Summary:
In zip code 71842, there is a single high school, Horatio High School, serving grades 7 through 12 with 335 students in the Horatio, Arkansas area, a community where over 83% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Horatio High School has a very low student-teacher ratio of 6.5:1, which often suggests small class sizes, yet its overall academic performance is mixed. The school has seen a declining state ranking over the past three years, dropping from the 70th percentile (4 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 60th percentile (3 stars) in 2025-2026. While the school maintains a very low dropout rate of 0.6%, its test scores in core subjects like English Language Arts (36.4%), Reading (36.4%), Mathematics (37.6%), and Science (36.4%) all fall below the state averages. However, the school performs above the state average in Algebra (43.1% vs. 36.9%) and Biology (43.2% vs. 42.7%). A notable concern is the stark contrast in math performance: while Algebra proficiency beats the state, Geometry proficiency is significantly lower at 19.6% compared to the state average of 26.4%, creating a 23.5-point gap between these two subjects.
An interesting anomaly exists between the school and its district, Horatio School District. For the 2025-2026 school year, the school's English Language Arts proficiency (36.4%) is slightly higher than the district's (35.7%), but its Mathematics proficiency (37.6%) is drastically lower than the district's (49.6%). Since Horatio High School is the only high school in the district, this suggests that the district's overall math scores are being pulled up by higher-performing elementary and middle school grades, pointing to a potential "math cliff" where students struggle as they transition to high school-level math courses. The school's graduation rate is 83.6% (2019-2020), and it spends $13,942 per student.
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