LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL
MABELVALE · AR · LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public
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- 📚 14 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes
- 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 76th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 14 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: Southwest Christian Academy, THE EXCEL CENTER, METROPOLITAN CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER 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
70th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented program
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 · 2020-2176th 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.
🏛️ 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.
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 -1.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,045 students:
≈ 170 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 $15,942 per student in district revenue, the 170 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,710,140/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.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Christian Academy Little Rock |
Private | 2.3 | 188 | -20.7% |
| THE EXCEL CENTER LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 3.7 | 1 | — |
| METROPOLITAN CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER LITTLE ROCK |
Public | 3.8 | — | — |
| GRADUATE ARKANSAS CHARTER HIGH LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 4.5 | 557 | +295.0% |
| PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK |
Public | 4.8 | 1,072 | +3.9% |
| LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 6.1 | 102 | — |
| Pinnacle Classical Academy Little Rock |
Private | 6.3 | 48 | — |
| LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK |
Public · charter | 6.4 | 394 | -12.6% |