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Enrollment
498
Middle
DISTRICT 564 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050459000333
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
1200 BOB COURTWAY DR, CONWAY, AR 72034 · (501) 450-4832 · Faulkner County
GRADES 05–07MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Arkansas public middle schools
- CTest 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
14.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
359 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 5 | 174 | 35% |
| Grade 6 | 166 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 158 | 32% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Based on grade levels within CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
29.0%
AR avg 34.9% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
27.9%
AR avg 38.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 32.1% | 26.9% |
% 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
30.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (30.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 498 | 72.1% | 30.2% |
| MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 420 | 65.2% | 15.3% |
| BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL BRYANT AR | 774 | 63.0% | 37.4% |
| HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL HAMBURG | 344 | 68.6% | 27.7% |
| JOHN L COLBERT MIDDLE SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 466 | 62.4% | 35.8% |
| NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL JONESBORO | 566 | 74.0% | 24.5% |
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 BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Faulkner County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #142 of 207 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #154 of 208 ▼ 5 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #136 of 208 ▼ 23 | #7 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #91 of 217 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #105 of 188 | #4 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #5 of 188 | #1 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.1% | #78 of 210 | #1 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.0% | #55 of 61 | 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
498
-36 (-7%) vs 2020
-48% since 2000-01, when it was 957
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 498 | 34.7 | 14.3:1 | 72% (359) |
| 2023-24 | 497 | 34.3 | 14.5:1 | 77% (382) |
| 2022-23 | 498 | 37.3 | 13.4:1 | 72% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 68% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 37.3 | 13.1:1 | 32% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 37 | 12.6:1 | 63% (292) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 40 | 15.4:1 | 54% (336) |
| 2000-01 | 957 | 55 | 17.4:1 | 29% (280) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle-grades school found in CONWAY, Arkansas. The school teaches grades 5 through 7 and enrolls 498 students.
CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT (16 schools, 10,212 students) runs BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The biggest share of students at BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, 34%, is White. The remaining shares are 32% Black, 28% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Faulkner County's population at about 79%. The diversity index for BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 14.3:1, based on 34.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 72% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Faulkner County report 52%.
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 26% of Arkansas public middle schools.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 33.0%. BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 30.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Faulkner County show that the median household earns about $67,289 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Faulkner County has 37 public schools with about 18,977 students, including BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 30.2% average proficiency ranks 8th among 8 nearby schools.
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
The school's student count fell 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.2:1 to 14.3:1.
The BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
Faulkner County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,717
Census ACS
Median income
$67,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,977 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,350 students
- CONWAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,568 students
- CARL STUART MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 752 students
- RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 547 students
- CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 514 students
- THEODORE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
Other schools in CONWAY
- CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,350 students
- CONWAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,568 students
- CARL STUART MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 752 students
- RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 547 students
- CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 514 students
- THEODORE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
Nearby schools
- RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 459
- THEODORE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 491
- PRESTON & FLORENCE MATTISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 417
- CONWAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,568
- SALLIE CONE PRESCHOOL2.3 mi · 277
- IDA BURNS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 384
Frequently asked questions
About BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 498 students in grades 05-07.
Is BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 05-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 14.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 34% White, 28% Hispanic, 32% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.