CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-tier middle-grades school in CAMDEN, Arkansas, run under CAMDEN FAIRVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 421 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in CAMDEN FAIRVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,995 students total), CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 20% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ouachita County (around 86%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 10.4%, a residual of -12.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ouachita County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $49,268 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in Ouachita County (combined enrollment of about 3,268 students).

IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 548 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 32% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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