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Enrollment
1,066
Middle
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051197000953
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
1610 S 13TH ST, ROGERS, AR 72758 · (479) 631-3600 · Benton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,066 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Arkansas public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
16.6:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
421 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 | 343 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 364 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 359 | 34% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
49.9%
AR avg 34.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
60.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +5.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.9% | 60.1% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 54.5% |
% 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
55.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,066 | 39.5% | 55.4% |
| HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 849 | 43.5% | 53.1% |
| BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL ALEXANDER | 762 | 47.6% | 49.9% |
| SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL SILOAM SPRINGS | 743 | 58.8% | 37.4% |
| LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ROGERS | 643 | 57.2% | 47.3% |
| RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 761 | 52.3% | 41.0% |
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 ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #16 of 207 | #9 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #14 of 208 ▲ 13 | #8 of 20 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #22 of 208 ▼ 2 | #10 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,066 | #2 of 217 | #1 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #156 of 188 | #13 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #47 of 188 | #5 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.5% | #184 of 210 | #9 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.7% | #11 of 61 | #3 of 10 |
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
1,066
+106 (+11%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 835
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 1,066 | 64.2 | 16.6:1 | 39% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 1,026 | 64.8 | 15.8:1 | 40% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 1,007 | 66.2 | 15.2:1 | 42% (422) |
| 2020-21 | 960 | 62 | 15.5:1 | 49% (467) |
| 2017-18 | 822 | 58.1 | 14.1:1 | 41% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 742 | 49 | 15.1:1 | 53% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 801 | 51 | 15.7:1 | 55% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 928 | 65 | 14.3:1 | 31% (284) |
| 1990-91 | 835 | 38 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle school in ROGERS, Arkansas. Federal data show 1,066 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Across middle schools in Arkansas, the average enrollment is about 464.
The district, ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT, has 15,688 students enrolled across 23 schools.
More than half of enrollment at ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is White: 52%. Next come 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 60% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 59%.
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a ratio of 16.6 students per teacher, from 64.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas is 2.7 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, 39% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Benton County is similar, at 37%.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 92%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.4% is 10.3 points above the 45.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Benton County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $93,506, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Benton County's 88 public schools enroll about 57,071 students and include ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2020-21, ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 960 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 1,066. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.5:1 to 16.6:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 890 students
- OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 809 students
- LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 643 students
- ROGERS NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 640 students
Other schools in ROGERS
- ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 890 students
- OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 809 students
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS BENTONVILLEElementary · 787 students
- LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 643 students
Other Elmwood Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Elmwood Middle. ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Elmwood Middle SchoolBloomdale, OH · 326 students
- Elmwood MiddleElmwood, WI · 92 students
Nearby schools
- BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL0.3 mi · 458
- ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 523
- ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,008
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 402
- FRANK TILLERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 526
- ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,066 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
How diverse is ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 52% White, 38% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.