2025 Compare Cities Education:
Atchison, KS vs Forrest City, AR

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Highlights
- Forrest City spends 3.4% more per student than Atchison.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 37.2% higher in Forrest City than in Atchison. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Forrest City had 16.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Atchison
 Atchison, KSForrest City, ARUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,636$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,256  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,164$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio9.71  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3784573
 Students per Counselor299  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock79.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.27.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.2%1.5%
Reviews for Atchison    2 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

Great Place to live! Story-book!  More

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A wonderful example of a town forcefully driven without a purpose. Set up as a perfect sleeper suburb of Kansas City, they have sabotaged themselves with short-sighted  More

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Reviews for Forrest City    2 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

I have traveled a lot and this place is by far the worst I have ever been I will drive 5 hours out of my way to avoid having to even look at that dump. Save yourself  More

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Over 13 years ago

I think it may be worse than your stats here  More

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