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Little Rock, Arkansas - 5 schools
168
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Arkansas Youth Services School System operates 5 public schools serving 168 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arkansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Pulaski County.
a 25.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 47.8% African American, 41.1% White, 8.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mansfield Jtc School, with a diversity index of 61.4/100.
Its largest campus is Ark Consolidated High School, enrolling 106 students (51% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Dermott Jtc School, at 16 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ark Consolidated High School accounts for 51.0% of all Arkansas Youth Services School System student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Arkansas Youth Services School System a distant remainder — means Arkansas Youth Services School System-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Arkansas Youth Services School System school enrollment varies 6.6× across entities
Arkansas Youth Services School System school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 106 students (highest), a spread of 90 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Arkansas Youth Services School System has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 86.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Arkansas Youth Services School System student-counselor ratio is 26:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Arkansas Youth Services School System's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Arkansas Youth Services School System?
Arkansas Youth Services School System has 5 schools, including 4 combined, 1 high. Total enrollment is 168 students.
What is the demographic composition of Arkansas Youth Services School System?
Arkansas Youth Services School System students are 47.8% African American, 41.1% White, 8.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% Asian, averaged across 5 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.