2025 Census government inventory

Hillcrest School District

Independent school district in Arkansas. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 202926 · Census county field: Lawrence · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

404students in the finance record
2operating schools connected
$17,171current spending per pupil
Who runs this Arkansas school system

Mickel Smith is the state-published superintendent.

The statewide directory also names the people responsible for public finance, safety, civil-rights access, special education, nutrition, family services, technology, and public information. Those useful contacts appear first. The source does not publish the school-board roster, so Election.org does not pass administrators off as board members.

Named contacts
8
Mapped board zones
7
Exact state ID
3809000
District leadership

Mickel Smith

Superintendent · Public information · School Safety Coordinator

District phone870-376-5416 x 1000146 S. Main Street, Strawberry, AR, 72469
Who to contact

People responsible for the services families use.

7 current-directory contacts
Public finance

Karen Tidwell

Treasurer · Business manager

Student and family services

Cynthia Brewer Brewer

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services

Kendra Cooper

Family engagement

Civil rights and access · Student and family services

Marnie Johnson

Section 504 access · Students experiencing homelessness · Foster-care liaison

Civil rights and access

Michael Nunnally

Title IX

Student and family services

Dena Davis

Child nutrition

District operations

Leyman Barber

Technology Coordinator

How board seats are organized

The state publishes 7 mapped board zones for this district.

These are official election-zone records, not attendance zones. Population values are the source's 2020 Census field where published.

The board roster is still missing

Named administrators are not a substitute for elected governance.

  • Current board-member names, officer roles, seat numbers, terms, and vacancies
  • The exact at-large or zoned election plan when the GIS layer returns no zones
  • Upcoming filings and candidates, certified result history, and campaign disclosures
  • Normalized meetings, agendas, minutes, votes, policies, contracts, vendors, and decision history

Source: Arkansas Department of Education School Personnel Directory and Arkansas Secretary of State school-board zones via the Arkansas GIS Office, checked 2026-08-30. Election.org omits every person-level email, phone, fax, and street address from the personnel export; only district-level contact fields are retained. A dated directory row is not proof of continued service after the snapshot.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment40412.2% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$17,17122.8% higher than 2019 after inflation · 50.7% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$7.2M29.5% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$3.2M166.4% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 460; 2020: 471; 2021: 447; 2022: 420; 2023: 434; 2024: 404480438395201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $13,979; 2020: $13,520; 2021: $14,648; 2022: $16,154; 2023: $15,433; 2024: $17,171$17,682$15,346$13,009201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201911.2% F77.3% S11.5% L
202012.1% F76.6% S11.3% L
202119.0% F71.9% S9.1% L
202217.6% F72.9% S9.4% L
202320.4% F68.0% S11.6% L
202416.9% F71.2% S11.9% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019460$11,393$5,932,000$5,559,000$1,190,000
2020471$11,155$6,026,000$5,833,000$3,655,000
2021447$12,653$6,731,000$6,516,000$3,765,000
2022420$15,071$7,995,000$11,072,000$3,880,000
2023434$14,991$7,327,000$8,075,000$4,005,000
2024404$17,171$7,725,000$7,198,000$3,170,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Where the money comes from

$7.72M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal16.9%$1.30M
State71.2%$5.50M
Local11.9%$918,000
Total expenditures$7.20M
Current spending$6.97M
Instruction$3.42M
Support services$3.09M
Capital outlay$71,000
Debt outstanding$3.17M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

HILLCREST SCHOOL DISTRICT

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address146 S. MAIN STREET, STRAWBERRY, AR, 72469
Open district website →
About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
202926
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing addressPO BOX 50 · STRAWBERRY, AR · 72469
Reported contact roleSupt

A role label, not a verified person’s name.

Census county fieldLawrence
Reported websiteOpen listed website ↗

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment4342023

About these sources and their limits
Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The current Arkansas personnel directory reports the superintendent and student-service roles shown above; the separate Secretary of State GIS layer reports the mapped school-board zones returned for this exact LEA ID.

Not established by these records

  • That administrators are school-board members, or that a person remains in the directory role after the dated snapshot.
  • The current board roster, terms, vacancies, election calendar, candidates, results, meeting votes, contracts, or—when no zones are returned—a proven at-large voting plan.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.