Arkansas ATLAS · three-year trends for every school and district
School

Southside High School

Fort Smith School District · Sebastian County · Guy Fenter Education Service Cooperative · Grades 9-12
Enrollment
2,052
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
57.8%
2025-26 · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
10.8%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
10.8%
2025-26 · MSI
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Spring 2026 figures are Pre-Appeals. ADE has not yet run the appeals and corrections cycle for this release, so these numbers can still change. At this stage ADE's statewide total also runs slightly above the sum of its own districts (between +0.006% and +0.184% depending on the subject), because some test records are not yet attributed to a school. Spring 2024 and Spring 2025, both final releases, reconcile exactly. How we handle this.

Three-year trajectory

Where students landed

The headline number only counts Levels 3 and 4. Movement from Level 1 to Level 2 is real progress that the headline hides, so the full distribution is shown. Above each bar, ▲ is the share ready or exceeding (Levels 3–4); below it, ▼ is the share in need of support or close (Levels 1–2).

Compared with

Every figure below is ADE's own published figure for that grain — not a total we computed by adding up schools.

Position statewide

The whole distribution, with this school marked. We report a quartile band rather than a precise rank: across a field this tight, a rank implies a precision the data does not support.

Schools like this one

Comparing a school only with the state average tells you as much about who enrolls there as about what it does. These are the 12 closest schools by economic disadvantage, size, English-learner share, special-education share and grade span.

SubjectThis school, 2026Peer medianDifferencePeers used
ELA51.1%43.6%+7.5pp12
Reading52.2%44.6%+7.6pp12
Algebra41.5%22.5%+19.0pp8
Geometry37.4%25.5%+11.9pp12
Biology59.9%43.2%+16.7pp12

12 nearest schools in the same grade-span band, by rank-normalized distance over economically-disadvantaged % (MSI), log enrollment (SIS), English-learner % (MSI) and special-education % (MSI), equally weighted. Peer medians are computed, not published by ADE; peers below 30 tested students are excluded and counted above.

Russellville High SchoolRussellville School District
58% econ. dis.
1,238 students
20% EL
11% SPED
Central High SchoolLittle Rock School District
56% econ. dis.
2,468 students
11% EL
10% SPED
Har-Ber High SchoolSpringdale School District
61% econ. dis.
2,216 students
20% EL
10% SPED
Rogers High SchoolRogers School District
50% econ. dis.
2,482 students
21% EL
11% SPED
Van Buren High SchoolVan Buren School District
63% econ. dis.
1,287 students
9% EL
8% SPED
Siloam Springs High SchoolSiloam Springs School District
65% econ. dis.
1,384 students
18% EL
12% SPED
Fayetteville High SchoolFayetteville School District
36% econ. dis.
2,534 students
10% EL
11% SPED
White Hall High SchoolWhite Hall School District
62% econ. dis.
924 students
5% EL
9% SPED
Bryant High SchoolBryant School District
52% econ. dis.
2,306 students
8% EL
13% SPED
Batesville High School CharterBatesville School District
67% econ. dis.
964 students
17% EL
12% SPED
59% econ. dis.
632 students
16% EL
9% SPED
Lakeside High SchoolLakeside School District (Garland)
48% econ. dis.
1,111 students
4% EL
10% SPED