• The Arkadelphia Promise

• Three Full-time Nurses

• Three Full-time School Resource Officers

• New Peake Elementary School Facility (2024-25); New Goza Middle School (2019-20); and New AHS Coming in 2028-29

• 2024-2025 CKH National Showcase School District: Goza Middle School (3rd Consecutive Year), Peake Elementary School (2nd Consecutive Year), & Arkadelphia High School (1st Year) as National Showcase Schools

• Capturing Kids' Heart Processes

• Arkansas Military Family Purple Star District

• National Merit Finalist-2020, 2022, 2023

• 2024 & 2025 4A State High School Quiz Bowl Runner-Up

• 2023 4A State Junior High AND High School (2023, 2019, 2014) Quiz Bowl Champions

• Two AP Scholars with Honors; five AP Scholars

• One Digital Device Per Student

• Twelve Career and Technical Programs of Study

• New FFA Career & Technical Student Organizations, 2024

• Top Ten National FBLA Finishers in Middle and High School

• Sixteen High and Middle School FBLA National Qualifiers, 2024

• Army JROTC Program, Middle and High School

• Eight 4A ASBOA State Marching Band Championships and Two Runner-Up Awards in the Past Ten Years; Three Consecutive Band Sweepstakes Awards, which include 1st Division earned at the State Concert Contest

• Band Winterguard State Championship in Scholastic Regional B

• 2025 Arkansas Regional Teacher of the Year; 2024 Arkansas Federal Programs Coordinator of the Year; Arkansas FBLA Adviser of the Year; Arkansas Literacy Educator of the Year

• U.S. CyberPatriot Competition State Winner - AHS Open Team-Gold Tier (2023-24), Silver Tier (2021-22)

• 2022 RISE School Award, Perritt Primary School

• USA Today High School Sports Ranked Arkadelphia High School Sixth in the State for Student-Athletes

• Senior High Football - 2024, 2018, 2017, 1987, and 1979 State Champions

• 2024 State Farm Arkansas 4A Football Coach of the Year

• 2024 & 2023 Varsity Boys Football 4A-7 Conference Champions

• Boys' Dive State Champion 2025 & 2024 and State Record Holder

• Girls' Basketball-State Qualifiers

• Girls Basketball 4A State Elite Eight, 2025 & 2023

• 4A-7 Conference Champions - AHS Tennis

• Volleyball State Qualifiers 2025, 2024

• Wrestling State Champions, 2022

• Boys' Golf Team - 4A-7 Conference Boys Champions & Top 5 State Finishers

The mission of Arkadelphia Public School District is to create a quality learning organization where student achievement results in excellence within the local and global community.

The vision of the Arkadelphia Public School District is to be one of the state's premier providers of educational services.

The Arkadelphia Promise program invests over $500,000 per year in scholarships and provides a better future for the students in Arkadelphia. The Arkadelphia Promise helps send Arkadelphia students to college at an amazing rate. In the Class of 2025, 78.1 percent of Arkadelphia Graduates enrolled in colleges, universities, or trade schools. Our students go on to pursue 2-year and 4-year degrees at about 36% higher than the state average of 42.1%!

Over $4.9 million in scholarships has been awarded to Arkadelphia High School graduates through the Arkadelphia Promise. 

Arkadelphia students are also staying in college. The freshman-to-sophomore retention rate is one of the best around. Arkadelphia Promise scholarship recipients from the Arkadelphia High School Class of 2024 recorded the highest freshman-to-sophomore retention rate in the history of the scholarship program, dating back to 2011.

Numbers show that 85.3% of AHS graduates who entered college as freshmen in the fall of 2024 returned for their sophomore year in 2025-26. That is 7% above the national average of 78% and 10 points over the Arkansas average of 74.7%. In the history of the Arkadelphia Promise, the retention rate is around an average of close to 80%.

The exciting enhancements to our school facilities can be seen at APSD Facilities Updates

Arkadelphia Report to the Public December 2025

Online New Student Enrollment Page