CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL

CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in CORNING, Arkansas, part of CORNING SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 227 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 51% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

CORNING SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 805 students. CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic. Compared to Clay County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

In the surrounding community, Clay County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,481, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Clay County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,244 students), CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CORNING HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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