16 public K-12 schools in Hot Springs from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hot Springs has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hot Springs sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
9 of Hot Springs's 16 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
4 of 16 listed Hot Springs campuses are reported as charters, so district-run and charter records occupy substantial shares of the same city view. They may follow different governance, enrollment, and program structures even when their mailing city matches. The 31-point gap between Main Street Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School and Langston Elementary Leadership Academy Magnet School should be read within that context, not as a single-system league table. Check charter status and district affiliation before comparing two nearby schools, and verify current admissions rules with the operator.
Hot Springs school enrollment ranges from 331 students (lowest) to 1,107 students (highest), a spread of 776 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
25% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Main Street Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School | 59 |
| 2. | Park Magnet an Ib Pyp World Class School | 58 |
| 3. | Hot Springs World Class High School | 56 |
| 4. | Lakeside Junior High School | 49 |
| 5. | Lakeside High School | 48 |
| 6. | Fountain Lake Middle School Cobra Digital Prep Academy | 48 |
| 7. | Lakeside Intermediate School | 47 |
| 8. | Lakeside Middle School | 44 |
| 9. | Fountain Lake Charter High School | 42 |
| 10. | Cutter-Morning Star High Sch. | 42 |
| 11. | Hot Springs Junior Academy | 40 |
| 12. | Oaklawn Stem Magnet School | 39 |
| 13. | Cutter-Morning Star Elem. Sch. | 38 |
| 14. | Lakeside Primary School | 31 |
| 15. | Fountain Lake Elementary | 30 |
| 16. | Langston Elementary Leadership Academy Magnet School | 28 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Main Street Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hot Springs schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Hot Springs has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,050 students. 4 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.6:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
