The Mountain Home School District covers approximately 330 square miles and is comprised of six campuses located throughout Mountain Home, including Mountain Home High School (grades 10-12), Mountain Home Junior High (grades 8-9), Pinkston Middle School (grades 5-7), Guy-Berry Intermediate School (grade 4), Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary school (grades 1-3), and the Kindergarten center.

The Norfork School District covers 165 square miles. Its Elementary School (Grades K-6) and its High School (Grades 7-12) are located on Mildred Simpson Drive, off of highway 177 south, a few miles south of Norfork.

The Cotter School District covers 35 square miles. Its campus includes an Elementary School (Grades K-6) and High School (Grades 7-12) and is located on Highway 62B in Cotter.

The Baxter County Alternative School, operated by Baxter County Juvenile Services, provides accountability and supervision to students in grades 7 - 12 which have been expelled or are in jeopardy of being expelled from the Mountain Home, Cotter and Norfork School Districts in Baxter County. The Alternative School is located on Bomber Boulevard in Mountain Home.

ASU Mountain Home was established as a branch campus of Arkansas State University - Jonesboro in 1995 and relocated to its new campus on 135 acres on south College Street in 2000. As a public two-year institution, ASU-Mountain Home offers associate degrees and certificates in occupational fields and a transfer degree for students planning to pursue a bachelor's degree at another university. ASU-Jonesboro offers junior, senior and graduate courses through the Center for Advanced Studies at ASU Mountain Home.