(January 2019) Sixty-five percent (65%) of the nearly 4,800 K-12 students enrolled in Little Rock open-enrollment public charters in 2018-19 attend schools in zip codes with median household incomes less than $62,258, Arkansas Department of Education1 and U.S. Census Bureau2 data show.

Three percent (3%) of students attend a charter in one of Little Rock’s three most affluent zip codes.3 By contrast, 31 percent (31%) of students attend charters in Little Rock’s three poorest zip codes,4 ADE and Census data show.5 The following chart lists charter location and enrollment by school and zip code:

 

72212 None
72223 Quest Academy of West Little Rock (5-12)6 163
72207 None 0
72201 eStem Elementary (K-6) and Middle School (7-9)7 981, 515
72211 Lisa Academy Chenal (K-6)8 607
72227 None 0
72210 None 0
722059 Lisa Academy Middle (7-8) and High School 327, 440
Little Rock Prep Academy Middle School (6-8) 121
72202 Premier High School of Little Rock (9-12)10 116
72206 Little Rock Preparatory Academy (K-4)11 240
7220912 Covenant Keepers (6-8) 114
Exalt Academy of Southwest Little Rock 411
Siatech High Charter (9-12) 125
The Excel Center (9-12) 102
72204 eStem High School (10-12)13 506

— Greg Kaza