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Sweet Home, AR schools

Sweet Home’s public schools score well below Arkansas’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 36.8% statewide, and 85% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88.6%. Kids attend one of 16 elementary schools.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Sweet Home’s School Grade: C

The public schools Sweet Home’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 66% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation.

C+Test scoresCGraduation

Arkansas school districts we grade (258)Better than 34%

Lower resultsHigher results

High confidence. Built on 6,761 tested students and a graduating class of 940; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arkansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arkansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arkansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

School path

Where Sweet Home kids go to school

Grades PK–5

16 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Pulaski County Special School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–5, Pulaski County Special)31%

State average 36.8%

Math (grades PK–5, Pulaski County Special)27%

State average 36.2%

Graduation · class of 2020

85% graduate on time

Graduation rate

85%

AR: 88.6%

Graduating class

940

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Sweet Home

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Pulaski County Special School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 25 schools · 12,368 students

$14,871 per studentAR $13,585C

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Sweet Home

There’s no college in Sweet Home, but 8 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock, 5.3 miles away.

Arkansas Baptist CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Little Rock5.3 mi373 students Philander Smith UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Little Rock5.3 mi841 students

Jackson Theological SeminaryUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · North Little Rock6.4 mi9 students

Shorter CollegeCommunity college · Private nonprofit · North Little Rock6.4 mi287 students University of Arkansas at Little RockUniversity or college · Public · Little Rock6.6 mi5,059 students University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesUniversity or college · Public · Little Rock7.2 mi2,164 students University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical CollegeCommunity college · Public · North Little Rock8.5 mi2,253 students Baptist Health College Little RockCommunity college · Private nonprofit · Little Rock9.7 mi512 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Sweet Home. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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