LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
LITTLE ROCK · AR · LISA ACADEMY · Public charter
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HALL HIGH SCHOOL - WEST SOI → METROPOLITAN CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER → LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL → UA-PTC TECHNICAL CENTER → ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL → PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK → THE ACADEMIES AT NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL → WARREN HIGH SCHOOL →📋 At a glance
- 📚 22 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 3 calculus classes · 12 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 75th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 87% (Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 20% nationally with 22 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyAR trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−5 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: HALL HIGH SCHOOL - WEST SOI, METROPOLITAN CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER, LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
80th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2175th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Arkansas
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $18,209/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -4.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 394 students:
≈ 83 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $10,235 per student in district revenue, the 83 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $849,505/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HALL HIGH SCHOOL - WEST SOI LITTLE ROCK |
Public | 7.4 | 495 | +111.5% |
| METROPOLITAN CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER LITTLE ROCK |
Public | 5.4 | — | — |
| LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 2.2 | 102 | — |
| UA-PTC TECHNICAL CENTER Benton |
Public | 18.2 | — | — |
| ACADEMIES AT RIVERCREST HIGH SCHOOL WILSON |
Public · charter | 139.9 | 351 | +7.7% |
| PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 4.7 | 76 | — |
| THE ACADEMIES AT NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL NEWPORT |
Public · charter | 84.5 | 331 | -1.5% |
| WARREN HIGH SCHOOL WARREN |
Public | 79.4 | 480 | +1.7% |