Best Public Schools in Zip Code 72454

The 72454 zip code area is home to two schools, Piggott Elementary School and Piggott High School, both part of the Piggott School District. The district is ranked 190 out of 250 in Arkansas and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating significant room for improvement.

Neither Piggott Elementary nor Piggott High stand out as high-performing schools. Both have relatively low performance metrics compared to state averages, with proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Reading, Math, and Science well below the Arkansas average, ranging from 10% to 51.8% proficient. Piggott Elementary is ranked 275 out of 495 Arkansas elementary schools, with a 2-star rating, while Piggott High is ranked 215 out of 291 Arkansas high schools, with a 1-star rating.

The high rates of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at both schools, 76.28% at the elementary school and 57.73% at the high school, suggest a high level of economic disadvantage in the community. Despite the low performance, the schools have relatively low student-teacher ratios, with 13.4 students per teacher at the elementary school and 6.2 students per teacher at the high school. However, the spending per student at both schools, $8,611 at the elementary school and $9,493 at the high school, is below the state average, which could be a contributing factor to the poor academic outcomes.