NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools AR

Best-Resourced Schools in Texarkana, AR

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13 public K-12 schools in Texarkana from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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13
Schools
5,110
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
15.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Texarkana has more public-school enrollment than 56% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Texarkana 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Texarkana's 13 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

82.7% of enrollment in reporting Texarkana schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 33-point gap between Genoa Central High School and College Hill Harmony Leadership Academy shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 44%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
52nd percentile

Arkansas High School accounts for 21.4% of all Texarkana public-school enrollment

That concentration means Texarkana-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Texarkana school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Texarkana school enrollment ranges from 67 students (lowest) to 1,092 students (highest), a spread of 1,025 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Texarkana reports 82.7% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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

Texarkana student-teacher ratio is 15.2:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Texarkana is typically wider than the Texarkana-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Genoa Central High School 57
2. Arkansas High School 56
3. Arkansas Middle School 54
4. North Heights Community School 52
5. Edward D. Trice Elem. School 48
6. Gary E. Cobb Middle School 46
7. Genoa Central Elem. School 43
8. College Hill Pre-K Center 43
9. Genoa Central Junior High 40
10. Vera Kilpatrick Elem. School 33
11. Premier High School of Texarkana 33
12. Fairview Elementary School 30
13. College Hill Harmony Leadership Academy 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Texarkana

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.

  1. 1 Edward D. Trice Elem. School 60.1/100
  2. 2 Fairview Elementary School 59.1/100
  3. 3 Arkansas High School 57.3/100
  4. 4 Premier High School of Texarkana 56.7/100
  5. 5 Arkansas Middle School 56.4/100

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Which Texarkana school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Genoa Central High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Texarkana schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Texarkana, AR? ▼

Texarkana has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,110 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.2:1.

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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.