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Bryant Went from 94% White to 50% While Growing
In 2005, Bryant School District enrolled 6,598 students. Ninety-four percent of them were white. The district sat in Saline County, a bedroom community south of Little Rock that the Encyclopedia of Ar...
One in 18 Arkansas Students Now Identifies as Multiracial
In 2010, three Arkansas school districts had multiracial students exceeding 5% of enrollment. In 2025-26, 82 do. Eleven districts are above 10%. The category barely existed in the data 16 years ago.
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 ...
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...