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Public school / High

Mena High School

Mena, Arkansas

NCES ID
050975000713
District
Mena School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Mena High School is a public high school in Mena, Arkansas, run by Mena School District. It enrols 498 students — the 37505th 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

498students

37505th nationally, tied with 123

Teachers

61.0FTE

9331st nationally, tied with 380

Students per teacher

8.2students

4404th nationally, tied with 136

Free or reduced-price lunch

53.0%percent

47525th nationally, tied with 92

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 Mena 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. 1Mena High School498 students
  2. 2Holly Harshman Elem. School435 students
  3. 3Louise Durham Elem. School429 students
  4. 4Mena Middle School375 students
  5. 5Polk County Virtual Academy8 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+10.7%
  • Teachers+110.3%
  • Students per teacher−42.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−21.9%
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Where this sits

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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.