Enrollment
216
Middle
DISTRICT 353 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050270000128
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL
601 NORTH HICKORY, BALD KNOB, AR 72010 · (501) 724-5652 · White County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL216 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
125 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 82 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 73 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 28% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL→BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
30.3%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
42.5%
AR avg 38.9% . +13.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.3% | 42.5% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 29.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 216 | 57.9% | 35.1% |
| LAVACA MIDDLE SCHOOL LAVACA | 234 | 53.8% | 38.0% |
| QUITMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL QUITMAN | 210 | 54.8% | 42.3% |
| OZARK MIDDLE SCHOOL ALTUS | 266 | 55.6% | 30.5% |
| DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL DEWITT | 271 | 61.3% | 36.8% |
| EUREKA SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL EUREKA SPRINGS | 192 | 62.0% | 47.5% |
Matched among Arkansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In White County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #116 of 207 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #77 of 208 ▲ 58 | #5 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #127 of 208 ▲ 15 | #5 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 216 | #184 of 217 | #5 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #40 of 188 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #137 of 188 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.9% | #130 of 210 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.6% | #40 of 114 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
216
-75 (-26%) vs 2020
-34% since 2000-01, when it was 326
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 216 | 17.9 | 12.1:1 | 58% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 248 | 18.6 | 13.3:1 | 64% (158) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 24.2 | 10.7:1 | 58% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 291 | 20 | 14.6:1 | 57% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 259 | 19.3 | 13.4:1 | 35% (90) |
| 2015-16 | 295 | 22 | 13.4:1 | 64% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 33 | 12.9:1 | 65% (276) |
| 2000-01 | 326 | 42 | 7.8:1 | 56% (183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school run by BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT in BALD KNOB, Arkansas. School enrollment was 216 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in Arkansas average about 464 students.
BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 3 schools and 1,059 students.
The large majority of students at BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL, 85%, are White. The remaining shares are 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Black. County-wide, about 87% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 27%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1 at BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 17.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 58%. That is close to the 60% average for public schools in White County.
The allk12 Grade for BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL is C+. Compared with Arkansas public middle schools, the school scored higher than 35% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Arkansas schools: 35.1% actual against 38.3% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for White County show that median household income is about $55,249, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 14% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 27 public schools in White County, with a combined enrollment of about 12,342.
The closest public school to BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL is BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are 3 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Distant, means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL went from 291 students to 216. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.6:1 to 12.1:1.
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White County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,838
Census ACS
Median income
$55,249
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
12,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT
- H.L. LUBKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 517 students
- BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 326 students
Other schools in BALD KNOB
- H.L. LUBKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 517 students
- BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 326 students
Nearby schools
- BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 326
- H.L. LUBKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 517
- JUDSONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 307
- WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL6.7 mi · 370
- WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.7 mi · 560
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL7.9 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 216 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 85% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BALD KNOB SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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