Enrollment
354
Middle
DISTRICT 473 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DE QUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050004900236
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
1803 W. COULTER DRIVE, DE QUEEN, AR 71832 · (870) 642-2428 · Sevier County
GRADES 06–07MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% of Arkansas public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
14.8:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
275 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 6 | 167 | 47% |
| Grade 7 | 187 | 53% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within DE QUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
31.0%
AR avg 34.9% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
50.8%
AR avg 38.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 50.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.5% | 49.0% |
% 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
39.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (39.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 354 | 77.7% | 39.2% |
| HELEN TYSON MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 676 | 83.6% | 29.3% |
| WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 711 | 82.8% | 27.1% |
| SONORA MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 668 | 86.1% | 26.7% |
| OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL ROGERS | 809 | 66.4% | 35.5% |
| DARDANELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL DARDANELLE | 500 | 75.0% | 35.8% |
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 DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #89 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #43 of 208 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #122 of 208 ▼ 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #136 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #120 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #60 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #65 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.9% | #26 of 61 |
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
354
-23 (-6%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 461
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 354 | 23.9 | 14.8:1 | 78% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 356 | 25.3 | 14.1:1 | 78% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 26.1 | 13.1:1 | 77% (263) |
| 2020-21 | 377 | 29 | 13.0:1 | 77% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 325 | 22.1 | 14.7:1 | 40% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 360 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 79% (285) |
| 2010-11 | 365 | 26 | 14.0:1 | 77% (281) |
| 2000-01 | 387 | 12 | 32.3:1 | 55% (213) |
| 1990-91 | 461 | 21 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment middle school in DE QUEEN, Arkansas. The school enrolls 354 students, from grades 6 through 7. An average school in this group (middle schools in Arkansas) has about 464 students.
DE QUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT has 5 schools and 2,365 students, and DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
At DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up 58% of the student body. After that, the student body is 31% White, 5% Pacific Islander, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Sevier County is about 36% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 56%, meaning two students picked at random have a 56% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 14.8:1 comes from the school's 23.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 0.9 students per teacher above the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 78% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Sevier County average 79%.
allk12 grades DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 30.9%. DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 39.2%.
In Sevier County (population about 15,712), the median household income is $53,527, 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 8 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is DEQUEEN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. A five-mile radius around the school includes 4 other public schools. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Remote.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 23 fewer students in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 14.8 students per teacher, compared with 13.0 in 2020-21.
Discussion on this page can cover school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Sevier County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
15,712
Census ACS
Median income
$53,527
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
9%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
8
3,013 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DE QUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 558 students
- DEQUEEN PRIMARYElementary · 555 students
- DEQUEEN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 550 students
- DEQUEEN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 348 students
Other schools in DE QUEEN
- DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 558 students
- DEQUEEN PRIMARYElementary · 555 students
- DEQUEEN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 550 students
- DEQUEEN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 348 students
Nearby schools
- DEQUEEN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 348
- DEQUEEN HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 550
- DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 558
- DEQUEEN PRIMARY0.2 mi · 555
- HORATIO HIGH SCHOOL5.7 mi · 335
- HORATIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.4 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 354 students in grades 06-07.
Is DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 14.8:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 31% White, 58% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DEQUEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by DE QUEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT in Sevier County.
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