Bentonville
95 Districts at Record Lows, 22 at Highs: Arkansas Splits in Two
Bentonville added 370 students this year. It is one of 22 Arkansas districts at all-time enrollment highs. Ninety-five districts, meanwhile, just recorded their lowest headcounts in at least two decad...
Bentonville Passes Little Rock as Arkansas's No. 2 District
In 2004-05, Little Rock enrolled 24,424 students. Bentonville enrolled 9,210. The capital city's school district was nearly three times the size of the small northwest Arkansas district anchored by Wa...
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.
NWA Now Educates 1 in 7 Arkansas Students
In 2005, the four anchor districts of Northwest Arkansas enrolled 44,667 students, about one in every 10 in the state. By 2025-26, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville together enrolled 6...
Arkansas Schools Are 57% White and Falling
In 2005, seven out of every 10 students in Arkansas public schools were white. This year, barely more than half are. The white share of Arkansas enrollment has fallen in every available year of state ...
Little Rock Fell from #1 to #3 in Seven Years
Through at least 14 consecutive years of data, Little Rock enrolled more students than any other district in Arkansas. That ended in 2019, when Springdale passed it. In 2025, Bentonville did the same....
Three Out of Four Arkansas Districts Still Below Pre-COVID Enrollment
Arkansas public schools enrolled 479,432 students in 2019-20, the most in the state's modern history. Six years later, 14,011 of those students are gone, and the recovery that briefly appeared possibl...
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...