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Public Schools in Arkansas

1,069 schools · 258 districts · 493,130 students

43%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Arkansas

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Bentonville High School

Bentonville

3,322 students

Arkansas Connections Academy High

Bentonville

3,231 students

Fayetteville High School East

Fayetteville

2,685 students

Northside High School

Fort Smith

2,433 students

Bentonville West High School

Centerton

2,418 students

Central High School

Little Rock

2,338 students

Rogers High School

Rogers

2,284 students

Har-Ber High School

Springdale

2,274 students

Bryant High School

Bryant

2,199 students

Cabot High School

Cabot

2,198 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Arkansas has 1,069 public schools across 258 districts, serving 493,130 students.

The largest school in Arkansas is Bentonville High School with 3,322 students. Arkansas has 1,069 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 43%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.