HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL

HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the compact intermediate schools in HEBER SPRINGS, Arkansas, part of HEBER SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 391 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

HEBER SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,617 students. HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Cleburne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cleburne County (around 59%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cleburne County indicate median household earnings sit near $55,798, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 10 public schools in Cleburne County (combined enrollment of about 3,434 students).

Nearest neighbor: HEBER SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HEBER SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 386 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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