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Enrollment
521
Middle
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051308001368
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
5201 WEST KINGSHIGHWAY, PARAGOULD, AR 72450 · (870) 215-4450 · Greene County
GRADES 06–09MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- CBeats 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
13.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
230 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 7 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 8 | 258 | 50% |
| Grade 9 | 261 | 50% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
35.4%
AR avg 34.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
61.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +23.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 24 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.4% | 61.6% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 38.1% |
% 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
40.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (40.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 521 | 44.1% | 40.5% |
| GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOL GREENBRIER | 583 | 46.7% | 56.9% |
| SHERIDAN MIDDLE SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 564 | 41.7% | 43.4% |
| VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL VILONIA | 451 | 43.0% | 57.2% |
| PINKSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL MOUNTAIN HOME | 546 | 39.6% | 45.9% |
| FRANK MITCHELL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL VILONIA | 617 | 47.2% | 50.2% |
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 GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #82 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #12 of 208 ▲ 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #89 of 208 ▲ 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #85 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #73 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.3% | #165 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.1% | #175 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #78 of 114 |
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
521
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 569
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 521 | 39 | 13.3:1 | 44% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 550 | 41.2 | 13.3:1 | 49% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 40 | 14.5:1 | 44% (253) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 46% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 43.4 | 13.1:1 | 28% (161) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 41 | 13.5:1 | 48% (266) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 51% (274) |
| 2000-01 | 412 | 28 | 14.7:1 | 36% (148) |
| 1990-91 | 569 | 30 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle school located in PARAGOULD, Arkansas, in Greene County. It enrolls 521 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 9.
GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 3,550 students across 6 schools.
Roughly 90% of students at GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL are White. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 2% Black. Greene County residents are about 89% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 18%.
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.3 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 44% of the student body. Among public schools in Greene County, the average eligibility rate is 73%.
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 45% of Arkansas public middle schools.
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.5% and a predicted 43.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Greene County show that the median household earns about $57,839 a year, about 17% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. Greene County has 15 public schools with about 7,364 students, including GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 40.5% average proficiency ranks 1st among 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL the locale Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 14 students, from 535 to 521.
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Greene County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,432
Census ACS
Median income
$57,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
7,364 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREENE CTY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 501 students
- GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 501 students
Other schools in PARAGOULD
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 881 students
- GREENE CTY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- PARAGOULD PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGHMiddle · 512 students
Nearby schools
- GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 501
- GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 501
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 557
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 710
- PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGH2.5 mi · 512
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 881
Frequently asked questions
About GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 521 students in grades 06-09.
What age range does GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 09.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.3:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 90% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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