BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in BROOKLAND, Arkansas, overseen by BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 701 students spanning grades 7 through 9. That puts it 51% bigger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

Within BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 3,213 students, BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Craighead County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 31.7%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Craighead County indicate median household income runs about $59,548, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Craighead County (combined enrollment of about 20,332 students).

BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has ticked up 23%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 701 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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