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Malvern, Arkansas - 2 schools
An equity score of 46/100 ranks Magnet Cove School Dist. #152 of 250 districts in Arkansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,980 per pupil, Magnet Cove School Dist. ranks #115 of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending (Arkansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$11,980
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Magnet Cove School Dist. operates 2 public schools serving 725 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arkansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined 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 Hot Spring County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,980 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arkansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 36.3% local, 52.0% state, and 11.6% 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 46/100, ranked #152 of 250 in Arkansas against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (6 AP courses district-wide), a 337.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 53.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.0% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Magnet Cove Elementary School, enrolling 368 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
Magnet Cove Elementary School accounts for 50.8% of all Magnet Cove School Dist. student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Magnet Cove School Dist. a distant remainder — means Magnet Cove 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.
Magnet Cove School Dist. student-counselor ratio is 338:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Magnet Cove School Dist. is typically wider than the Magnet Cove School Dist.-aggregate figure suggests.
Magnet Cove School Dist. chronic absenteeism rate is 53.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.