BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment 6-8 campuss in BLYTHEVILLE, Arkansas, overseen by BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 172 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 464.

BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 1,295 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 13% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Mississippi County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Mississippi County's rate of about 84%.

With demographic context factored in, BLYTHEVILLE 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 10.2%, a residual of -12.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Mississippi County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,548 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Mississippi County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,930 students), of which BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

BLYTHEVILLE CHICKASAW PREPARATORY ACADEMY (BCPA) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 56%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 172 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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