VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · AR
Arkansas Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in Arkansas, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The Arkansas district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/arkansas.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified school districts.
234 districts are drawn on this map.
TEACHER PAY
What Arkansas pays its teachers
A first look, from the National Education Association’s 2024–25 salary benchmarks. These are Arkansas statewide averages of district salary schedules; a district-by-district map is the next layer (see the note below).
$50,076
Average starting teacher salary — bachelor’s degree, no experience.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
$57,735
Average top-of-schedule salary — the highest step and lane a teacher can reach.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
234
of Arkansas’s 248 school districts had salary data reported (94.4%).
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
Source: National Education Association, 2024–2025 Teacher Salary Benchmark Report (April 2026), state tables ST-1 and ST-4. Figures are unweighted averages of district salary schedules; “starting” = bachelor’s degree with no experience, “top of schedule” = the highest step and lane. For reference, the national average starting salary was $48,112.
The district map is the next layer. A district-by-district salary map for Arkansas is being built from federal finance data — NCES teacher counts and the U.S. Census F-33 school-finance survey — to show an
average salary per district (a derived measure, and labeled as one). Until it lands, this page carries the verified statewide figures above. For the fully built version of this theme, see the Missouri flagship’s
Teacher Pay page.