Comparing enrollments of current 2-A schools. Then and now.

[stuck in between]

With the 2018-2020 reclassification being released earlier this month it sparked an interest in me as to what schools have grown and what schools have gotten smaller. This is a list of the schools that are currently competing in the 2-A classification and their enrollment numbers that were used in the 2008-2010 reclassification compared to their enrollment numbers that were used in the 2018-2020 reclassification. I could not find enrollment numbers for the bottom two schools in 2008

Team                    2008-2010 Enrollment   2018-2020 Enrollment   Difference

Brinkley                           219.67                          114.33                     105.34
Marvell - Elaine                   170.33                            88.33                       82
Strong                           155                                    75.67                       79.33
Augusta                           158                                    87.67                       70.33
Lafayette County           211.67                          144.33                       67.34
Hermitage                           132                                    87.33                       44.67
Hampton                           171.33                          127                               44.33
Cross County                   178                                  143                               35
Mt. Pine                           148                                  118                               30
Bearden                           155                                  126                               29
Midland                           138.33                          110                               28.33
Earle                                   189                                  162.33                       26.67
Mineral Springs                   122.33                           89.33                       23
Des Arc                           154                                 131.67                       22.33
Clarendon                           148                                 126                               22
Rector                           156                                 135                               21
Mountainburg                   189.33                         169                               20.33
Decatur                           135.33                         118.67                       16.66
Hector                           165.33                         151.33                       14
Foreman                           134                                 120.33                       13.67
Lavacca                           194.33                         181.33                       13
Mt. Ida                           134.67                         121.67                       13
Magnet Cove                   184                                  171.33                       12.67
Cutter Morning Star           149.67                          141.67                         8
Parkers Chapel                   186                                  178.67                         7.33
Dierks                           133                                  127                                 6
Marked Tree                   139.67                          134                                 5.67
England                           183                                  180.67                         2.33
Woodlawn                           127.67                          126.33                         1.34
Salem                           179.67                          179.33                         0.34
Western Yell County           101.33                          102.67                       +1.34
E.P.C.                           173                                  175.33                       +2.33
Hackett                           151                                  156                               +5
Johnson County WS           144.67                          151.67                       +7
Hazen                           143.67                          154.33                       +10.66
Bigelow                           137.33                          148                               +10.67
Rison                                   195                                  206.33                       +11.33
C. Harmony Grove           186                                  201                               +15
Carlise                            150.33                         165.67                       +5.34
McCrory                           125                                 145                               +20
Magazine                           110                                 132.67                       +22.67
Springhill                           120.33                         143.67                       +23.34
Quitman                           144.33                         168                               +23.67
Murfreesboro                   123.33                         151.67                       +28.34
Danville                           172.33                          201                               +28.67
Poyen                           115.33                          150.33                       +35
Palestine Wheatley           139.67                          207                               +67.33
Blytheville Kipp                      X                                  100.67   
Conway Christian              X                                    92   

[beach bum]

Nice job compiling this together.... This kind of stuff is always fun to look at. Those top 5 declines really jumped out there and are quite a big loss of student population. Mountainburg and Decatur also stand out too because they are near close by population boom in NW Arkansas and should not be losing students like that but are.

[MomaLion]

School choice has hurt lots of school's numbers.

[big E]

School choice has hurt lots of school's numbers.

School choice is not a bad thing. It works out Good for some of us.

[MomaLion]

School choice is not a bad thing. It works out Good for some of us.

I didn't say that it was necessarily a bad thing, but it has hurt a lot of schools.

[HorseFeathers]

School choice is not a bad thing. It works out Good for some of us.

Might change your mind sports wise next year

[Lions84]

School choice has hurt lots of school's numbers.

Yep several kids I went to school with or still know in Clarendon flew the coop to Hazen with their own kids.

[AT]

Tough to say that Mountainburg is at the edge of the NWA boom. They are in a weird spot...kind of the end of the River Valley and start of NWA, but too far away from Fayetteville to really feel the affects of that growth yet. I mean Mountainburg is about 31 miles south of Fayetteville with Greenland and West Fork in between.

Decatur I agree with.

[big E]

Might change your mind sports wise next year

Contrary to popular belief  it's not about sport's if your not growing you are in trouble in our part of the world. Oh and what our football and basketball teams won't be any good , big news we are already there. So why would my mind change?

[HorseFeathers]

Contrary to popular belief  it's not about sport's if your not growing you are in trouble in our part of the world. Oh and what our football and basketball teams won't be any good , big news we are already there. So why would my mind change?

Well, you do make a good point

[WonderWartHawg]

Quite a few of Poyen's  increase are school choice, many from Sheridan.

Rison board just approved 39 incoming school choice transfers for next year, vs. only 3 out. A big part of the incoming are from Watson Chapel. Sounds like Rison is going to stay solidly in 3A for a while after teetering between 2A and 3A the last few cycles.

Palestine-Wheatley's jump is interesting. I'm assuming that it is largely school choice as well. Have to look at what schools are close enough to PW for folks to jump. Brinkley?

[NWA Hawg]

Quite a few of Poyen's  increase are school choice, many from Sheridan.

Rison board just approved 39 incoming school choice transfers for next year, vs. only 3 out. A big part of the incoming are from Watson Chapel. Sounds like Rison is going to stay solidly in 3A for a while after teetering between 2A and 3A the last few cycles.

Palestine-Wheatley's jump is interesting. I'm assuming that it is largely school choice as well. Have to look at what schools are close enough to PW for folks to jump. Brinkley?

I believe a large amount of PW's increase is from school choice out of Forrest city.

[big E]

I believe a large amount of PW's increase is from school choice out of Forrest city.

PW gets a lot of kids from Forrest city,  many of those kids are kids that would end up at Lee academy in Marianna. We get kids from Lee county , and we have a few kids from the Brinkley area but not as many as people think.

[MomaLion]

I think most of Brinkley's kids went to McCrory.  We lost a ton to Marvell Academy and some to Hazen.  Add to that the fact that so many kids now have divorced parents living in different cities...the kids bounce wherever they want to be at that particular moment.