County / FIPS 05135
Sharp County
Arkansas
Sharp County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Arkansas has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
605
Sharp County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
17,773
Median household income
$44,637
Poverty rate
16.5%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$105,100
Median gross rent
$766
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.9%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Sharp County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$171.1M
Per resident
$9,906
Change since FY2021
+17%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $146M |
| 2022 | $145M |
| 2023 | $151M |
| 2024 | $156M |
| 2025 | $171M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Sharp County ranks 1783rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Sharp County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cave City Elementary School | Cave City School District | Cave City | 576 |
| Cave City High Career & Collegiate Preparatory School | Cave City School District | Cave City | 371 |
| Cave City Middle School Career and Collegiate Preparatory | Cave City School District | Cave City | 288 |
| Cherokee Elementary School | Highland School District | Hardy | 594 |
| Highland High School | Highland School District | Hardy | 526 |
| Highland Middle School | Highland School District | Hardy | 492 |