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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 ...
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...
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...
After 21 Years of Growth, Hispanic Enrollment Falls for the First Time
For 20 consecutive years, one line on Arkansas's enrollment chart only moved in one direction. Hispanic student enrollment grew every single year from 2005 through 2025 (with 2014 missing from the dat...