Guy-perkins High School, Guy AR - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Guy-perkins High School

Guy-Perkins High School serves students in grades seven through twelve in the small, rural community of Guy, Arkansas, located in northern Faulkner County. The school is part of the Guy-Perkins School District, which provides public education for the area. The town itself has an agricultural character, with a history tied to cotton farming, and remains a low-density, car-dependent place without a walkable commercial core. Cadron Creek near Guy offers recreation such as hunting and fishing, and the town’s civic infrastructure is limited, typical for a community of its size. Arkansas Highway 25 connects Guy to Greenbrier and Quitman, and the school is embedded within the town rather than on a distant campus, with WPA-era buildings still in use.

Enrollment at Guy-Perkins High School is small, with students spread relatively evenly across grades seven through twelve. The student body is predominantly white, and a very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic need. The school is not a charter school, and its magnet or Title I status is not specified in the available data. Information on special education identification and English learner populations was not provided, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those support structures.

State assessment results for the 2024-25 school year cover math, English language arts, and science at grades seven and eight, using Arkansas’s ATLAS test. In seventh grade math, a moderate share of students performed at proficient or above, while in eighth grade math the share was similar. In English language arts, the proficient share was lower for both seventh and eighth graders, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand the support available for literacy. Science results showed a moderate share proficient in seventh grade and a lower share in eighth grade. Overall proficiency across the tested subjects and grades placed the school below the midpoint when compared with other districts in Faulkner County. Because the school serves grades seven through twelve but state testing data in this release covers only the middle school grades, the available picture of academic performance is incomplete for the high school years.

No graduation rate data was reported for this school, so it is not possible to assess how many students complete high school on time. Chronic absenteeism data was also absent, leaving a gap in understanding attendance patterns. Civil rights and discipline data were not available in this profile.

The district operates on a four-day school week calendar, a schedule change that affects family routines, childcare arrangements, and the amount of instructional time. This is a practical consideration for any family weighing this school, as the shorter school week is a deliberate structure adopted by many small rural districts in Arkansas.

This is a small, rural school serving a community with limited commercial and civic infrastructure, set in an agricultural area that has experienced population growth in recent decades. The student body faces high levels of economic need, and tested proficiency in core subjects, especially English language arts, is an area a parent may want to explore further. The four-day week calendar is a defining feature of the school’s daily operations.

See more original research from School Decision →

Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 20 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

292 schools plotted. 5 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 43%

▲ 15 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 8 pts below state median

Science

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 5 pts below state median

This schoolGUY-PERKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.