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Enrollment
762
Middle
DISTRICT 768 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050369001197
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL
5415 NORTHLAKE RD, ALEXANDER, AR 72002 · (501) 316-0937 · Saline County
GRADES 06–07MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL762 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of Arkansas public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
17.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
363 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 | 353 | 46% |
| Grade 7 | 409 | 54% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL→BRYANT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
48.1%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
59.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +9.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.1% | 59.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.7% | 49.8% |
% 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
49.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (49.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 762 | 47.6% | 49.9% |
| RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 761 | 52.3% | 41.0% |
| HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 849 | 43.5% | 53.1% |
| NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 713 | 51.3% | 47.5% |
| AHLF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEARCY | 576 | 49.5% | 46.6% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 581 | 47.3% | 52.0% |
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 BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Saline County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #34 of 207 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #18 of 208 ▲ 20 | #1 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.1% | #27 of 208 ▲ 4 | #2 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 762 | #22 of 217 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #170 of 188 | #6 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.3% | #42 of 188 | #2 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.6% | #161 of 210 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #49 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
762
+46 (+6%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 764
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 762 | 43 | 17.7:1 | 48% (363) |
| 2023-24 | 758 | 42.5 | 17.8:1 | 40% (301) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 46.3 | 15.3:1 | 43% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 716 | 47 | 15.2:1 | 36% (257) |
| 2017-18 | 892 | 68.8 | 13.0:1 | 20% (175) |
| 2015-16 | 943 | 61 | 15.5:1 | 31% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 764 | 47 | 16.3:1 | 28% (212) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school. Its address is in ALEXANDER, Arkansas. It has an enrollment of 762 students in grades 6 through 7. Across middle schools in Arkansas, the average enrollment is about 464.
BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 12 schools and 9,827 students, BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
The student body at BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 58% White. Other reported shares: 22% Hispanic, 14% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Saline County's residents are about 80% White, 22 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 59, compared with 70 nationally.
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 17.7:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Arkansas is 13.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 48% at BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL. The average for public schools in Saline County is similar, at 47%.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
A school with BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 42.1%. BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 49.9%, 7.7 points above that line.
For Saline County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $79,046 a year, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Saline County has 33 public schools.
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL's nearest public school is SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (about 1.7 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the Rural: Fringe locale category, used for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net gain of 46 students, or 6%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.2:1 in 2020-21, and 17.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Saline County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,479
Census ACS
Median income
$79,046
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
20,022 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BRYANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,369 students
- BRYANT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,545 students
- BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 785 students
- BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 774 students
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 568 students
- HILL FARM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 562 students
Other schools in ALEXANDER
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 568 students
- SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 551 students
- ROBERT L. DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDERHigh · 106 students
Other Bethel Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Bethel Middle. BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 6.
- Bethel Middle SchoolBethel, CT · 758 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolSpanaway, WA · 661 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolTipp City, OH · 526 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolShawnee, OK · 255 students
- Bethel MiddleWaynesville, NC · 254 students
Nearby schools
- SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 551
- SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 469
- ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL-ALEXANDER3.2 mi · 106
- COLLEGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 503
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 568
- BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 785
Frequently asked questions
About BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 762 students in grades 06-07.
What age range does BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 07.
How many students per teacher at BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 58% White, 22% Hispanic, 14% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT in Saline County.
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