Lake Hamilton
Arkansas's White-Black Graduation Gap Narrowed to 5.5 Points. Black Students Drove Most of the Closing.
In 2016, white students in Arkansas graduated at 89.2 percent. Black students graduated at 81.5 percent. The gap was 7.7 percentage points.
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...