Arkansas Connections Academy
One in 40 Arkansas Students Now Attends School Online
Arkansas Connections Academy added 1,205 students this year. No other district in Arkansas came close. The next-largest gain belonged to Bentonville, at 369.
One in 17 Arkansas Students Now Attends a Charter-Like School
Arkansas does not track charter schools with a formal flag in its enrollment data. Identify them by name, though, and the pattern is unmistakable: 17 entities matching charter, academy, and virtual ke...
Arkansas Lost More Students This Year Than COVID Took
The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to be the shock. In 2020-21, Arkansas public schools lost 6,428 students in a single year, the kind of enrollment hit that prompts emergency budget meetings and anxi...