BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL

BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is a junior high of sizable scale in BRYANT AR, Arkansas, one of the schools within BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 774 students in grades 6 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 67% above the state mean of about 464.

BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,827 students; BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Saline County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Saline County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Saline County put median household income runs about $79,046, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Saline County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,022 students), of which BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 35%: 1,199 students in 2018 compared to 774 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 43%.

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