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144 Districts Under 1,000 Students, Serving Less Than a Fifth of Arkansas
Three students enrolled at Imboden Charter School District this fall for every classroom a typical suburban school would fill with 25. The district's total enrollment: 53. Across the state, Westwind S...
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...
Nine Delta Districts Lost 55% of Their Students
In 2005, nine school districts in the Arkansas Delta collectively enrolled 24,887 students. By 2025-26, that number had fallen to 11,118. The loss of 13,769 students, 55.3% of the total, spans two dec...