ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 706 HWY. 64 EAST, in ALMA, Arkansas, ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a roomy middle-grades school that works with 722 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by ALMA SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 56% larger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

Across the 4 schools in ALMA SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,092 students total), ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,132 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 10,496 students).

ALMA PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. ALMA MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 722). The White share of enrollment fell from 87% to 82% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.