Pulaski County Special
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.
Little Rock Fell from #1 to #3 in Seven Years
Through at least 14 consecutive years of data, Little Rock enrolled more students than any other district in Arkansas. That ended in 2019, when Springdale passed it. In 2025, Bentonville did the same....
One in 17 Arkansas Students Now Attends a Charter-Like School
Arkansas does not track charter schools with a formal flag in its enrollment data. Identify them by name, though, and the pattern is unmistakable: 17 entities matching charter, academy, and virtual ke...
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...