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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 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...