ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in TEXARKANA, Arkansas, ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a substantial junior high, one of the schools within TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 842 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 464 students each, so ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 81% above that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,830 students total), ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 32% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Miller County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miller County (around 80%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Miller County shows median household earnings sit near $48,836, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miller County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students), of which ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.