Springdale
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...
Bentonville Passes Little Rock as Arkansas's No. 2 District
In 2004-05, Little Rock enrolled 24,424 students. Bentonville enrolled 9,210. The capital city's school district was nearly three times the size of the small northwest Arkansas district anchored by Wa...
One in Seven Springdale Students Is Pacific Islander
In 2010, Springdale enrolled 1,306 Pacific Islander students, 7.2% of its student body. By 2025-26, that number had grown to 2,922, or 13.9%. One in seven students in Arkansas's largest district trace...
NWA Now Educates 1 in 7 Arkansas Students
In 2005, the four anchor districts of Northwest Arkansas enrolled 44,667 students, about one in every 10 in the state. By 2025-26, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville together enrolled 6...
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 ...
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....
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...