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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Forrest City High School

Forrest City, Arkansas

NCES ID
050627000344
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Forrest City High School is a public high school in Forrest City, Arkansas, run by Forrest City School District. It enrols 580 students — the 28610th largest of 1,103 public schools in Arkansas.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

580students

28610th nationally, tied with 84

Teachers

63.0FTE

8621st nationally, tied with 335

Students per teacher

9.2students

6501st nationally, tied with 263

Free or reduced-price lunch

98.6%percent

5905th nationally, tied with 112

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Forrest City School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Central Elementary School725 students
  2. 2Forrest City High School580 students
  3. 3Stewart Elementary School440 students
  4. 4Forrest City Jr. High275 students
  5. 5Lincoln Academy139 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Arkansas median across 1,103 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+28.9%
  • Teachers+117.2%
  • Students per teacher−35.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+45.2%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.