Summary:
In zip code 72634 (Flippin, Arkansas), there is one high school, Flippin High School, serving grades 9 through 12 with 246 students, and it is part of the Flippin School District, which holds a 3-star rating and ranks 109th out of 251 districts in the state.
Flippin High School stands out for its exceptionally low student-teacher ratio of 4.1:1, which suggests a highly personalized learning environment, and it spends $14,015 per student. However, academic results are mixed. The school excels in Biology, with 45.5% of students proficient compared to the state average of 42.7%, and shows a remarkable strength in 9th-grade Reading, where 52% are proficient versus the state's 40.6%. Conversely, it struggles significantly in Geometry, with only 21.4% proficiency (state: 26.4%), and 10th-grade Geometry proficiency is a stark 4.2% (state: 16.5%). Overall, the school ranks 130th out of 293 schools in Arkansas (56th percentile), a slight decline from the previous year's 118th place. The graduation rate is 90.7%, slightly above the state average, and the dropout rate is low at 1.2%.
Notably, 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, indicating high economic need. Despite this, the school shows positive year-over-year improvement in core subjects: English Language Arts proficiency rose from 32% to 35.5%, Reading from 32.1% to 44.1%, and Algebra from 18.2% to 28.6%. This upward trend, especially in Algebra, is a promising sign of academic growth. The school's high spending and low student-teacher ratio may be necessary to support its economically disadvantaged population, but these investments have not yet translated into top-tier performance across all subjects, creating a clear academic split between strong Biology and Reading results versus weaker Geometry and Algebra outcomes.
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