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Paragould, Arkansas - 6 schools
An equity score of 27/100 ranks Greene Co. Tech School Dist. #219 of 250 districts in Arkansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,836 per pupil, Greene Co. Tech School Dist. ranks #191 of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending (Arkansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,652
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$10,836
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Greene Co. Tech School Dist. operates 6 public schools serving 3,652 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arkansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 1 elementary 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 Greene County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,836 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arkansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 30.5% local, 50.2% state, and 19.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 27/100, ranked #219 of 250 in Arkansas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (18 AP courses district-wide), a 486.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.6% White, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 2.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Greene Co. Tech Interm. School, with a diversity index of 19.1/100.
Its largest campus is Greene Co. Tech High School, enrolling 760 students (21% of the district's total enrollment).
Greene Co. Tech High School accounts for 20.8% of all Greene Co. Tech School Dist. student enrollment
That concentration means Greene Co. Tech School Dist.-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.
Greene Co. Tech School Dist. student-counselor ratio is 487:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Greene Co. Tech School Dist. chronic absenteeism rate is 19.8% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Greene Co. Tech School Dist. is typically wider than the Greene Co. Tech School Dist.-aggregate figure suggests.