High Schools
The Pulaski County Special School District maintains six comprehensive public high schools and one alternative academy. In 2011-12, PCSSD shutdown Oak Grove High School with the opening of the newly constructed Maumelle High School. The last school built in PCSSD prior to Maumelle High School was J. A. Fair High School, which subsequently moved to the Little Rock School District. The Joe T. Robinson High School moved to new facilities starting in the 1981–82 school year. The North Pulaski High School was established in 1977, Wilbur D. Mills High School opened in 1970, and Sylvan Hills High School was founded in 1956 and moved to its current facilities (as of 2012) in 1967. Jacksonville High School was originally located on the site of present-day Jacksonville Elementary. Next, JHS moved to 1320 School Drive (now serving as Jacksonville Middle School) until the start of the 1969–70 school year, when it moved to 2400 Linda Lane. The Alpha Academy is an alternative high school for students in danger of graduating due to discipline problems or other reasons.
The assumed course of study for students at each high school follows the Smart Core curriculum developed by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), which requires each student to complete 22 units to graduate; 16 units are from the Smart Core and 6 units that are career focused in occupational pathway areas. According to the Arkansas Department of Career Education (ACE), the Standards of Accreditation of Public Schools require that each school offer three programs of study in three different occupational pathway areas. If a program is offered at a secondary vocational center, students must be enrolled in the 2010-11 school year.
- Jacksonville High School offered 10 programs of study in 9 different pathways.
- Wilbur D. Mills High School offered 13 programs of study in 13 different pathways.
- North Pulaski High School offered 12 programs of study in 12 different pathways.
- Joe T. Robinson High School offered 10 programs of study in 10 different pathways.
- Sylvan Hills High School offered 9 programs of study in 9 different pathways.
| School Name | Location | Grades | Opened/ Current Facility |
NCES School ID | CEEB Code | Website(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Academy | Little Rock | 7–12 | None | N/A | None | |
| Jacksonville High School | Jacksonville | 9–12 | ? (Opened); 1969 (Current) |
051185000919 | 041225 | Official website PCSSD page |
| Maumelle High School | Maumelle | 9–12 | 2011 | TBD | 041861 | Official website PCSSD page |
| Wilbur D. Mills University Studies High School | Sweet Home | 9–12 | 1970 | 051185000945 | 042390 | Official website PCSSD page |
| North Pulaski High School | Jacksonville | 9–12 | 1977 | 051185000932 | 041227 | Official website PCSSD page |
| Joe T. Robinson High School | Little Rock | 9–12 | 1927 (Opened) / 1980 (Current) |
051185000923 | 041430 | Official website PCSSD page |
| Sylvan Hills High School | Sherwood | 9–12 | 1956 (Opened) / 1967 (Current) |
051185000941 | 041872 | Official website PCSSD page |
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