Summary:
Hot Springs High School - 01 is the only high school listed in Hot Springs School District 23-2, serving grades 9–12 with 215 students. Its strongest state comparison is 2024–2025 Smarter Balanced ELA: 72% of students met the standard, compared with 51% statewide, a 21-point lead. That ELA result is the clearest bright spot in the school’s reported results.
Because there is only one school in the list, Hot Springs High School - 01 is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school among the listed schools; those rankings do not distinguish it from another local high school. Compared with the state, its 2024–2025 Smarter Balanced math result was 7 points lower, and grade-11 science was 2 points lower. On the 2025–2026 ACT, grade-11 results were below state results in all three subjects: ELA by 6 points, math by 8, and science by 12. Science was the widest shortfall among the reported comparisons. The strong Smarter Balanced ELA result should not be read as a year-over-year improvement or decline: the later ACT comparison covers grade 11, and the assessments differ.
SchoolDigger’s school-ranking history rose and then fell: the percentile position moved from 31 in 2023–2024 to 64 in 2024–2025, then to 20 in 2025–2026, a net decline of 11 points; the school ranked 97th of 141, 60th of 166, and 104th of 130, respectively. SchoolDigger lists the district at 105th of 126 districts, with one star and a 17th-percentile position. Graduation was 85% in 2025–2026, 3 points below the state and equal to the district; dropout was 6%, 4 points above the state and 1 point above the district. For context, the school had an 11.7 student–teacher ratio and 23% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. The list includes no other local high schools for comparison.
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