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What's the most underrated thing about HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
849
Middle
DISTRICT 714 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051266001114
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
7771 HAR BER AVENUE, SPRINGDALE, AR 72765 · (479) 750-8725 · Washington County
GRADES 06–07MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL849 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% 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.
- A-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
16.4:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
369 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 419 | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 430 | 51% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
49.5%
AR avg 34.9% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
56.4%
AR avg 38.9% . +3.4pp 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 56 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 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.5% | 56.4% |
| 2023-24 | 44.3% | 53.0% |
% 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
53.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (53.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 849 | 43.5% | 53.1% |
| BETHEL MIDDLE SCHOOL ALEXANDER | 762 | 47.6% | 49.9% |
| ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ROGERS | 1,066 | 39.5% | 55.4% |
| NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 713 | 51.3% | 47.5% |
| RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 761 | 52.3% | 41.0% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 581 | 47.3% | 52.0% |
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 HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #23 of 207 | #3 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #23 of 208 ▲ 7 | #3 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #23 of 208 ▲ 12 | #3 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 849 | #9 of 217 | #1 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #150 of 188 | #12 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #49 of 188 | #6 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.5% | #176 of 210 | #13 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.4% | #61 of 114 | #4 of 8 |
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
849
+63 (+8%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 870
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 849 | 51.8 | 16.4:1 | 43% (369) |
| 2023-24 | 851 | 58.9 | 14.5:1 | 44% (373) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 64.8 | 12.1:1 | 43% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 786 | 73 | 10.8:1 | 49% (388) |
| 2017-18 | 969 | 69 | 14.0:1 | 36% (346) |
| 2015-16 | 1,039 | 62 | 16.8:1 | 49% (510) |
| 2010-11 | 870 | 54 | 16.1:1 | 46% (398) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school in Arkansas, located in SPRINGDALE. It teaches 849 students in grades 6 through 7. Middle schools in Arkansas have about 464 students on average; enrollment here is 83% higher.
SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 29 schools and 22,685 students, and HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL are White (59%). The rest of enrollment is 26% Hispanic, 6% Pacific Islander, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Washington County, where about 63% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 58%.
There are 51.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 16.4:1. Across middle schools in Arkansas, the average ratio is 13.9:1. Of all students at HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 43% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 58% average for public schools in Washington County is 15 points.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 89%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 43.7%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.1%.
Census data for Washington County show the median household earns about $70,639 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, Washington County has 76 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 849 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 786. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 10.8:1 in 2020-21 to 16.4:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 723 students
Other schools in SPRINGDALE
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 723 students
Nearby schools
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,271
- BERNICE YOUNG ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 536
- JIM D ROLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION1.4 mi · 570
- WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 605
- THURMAN G. SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 483
- WILLIS SHAW ELEMENTARY SCH2.8 mi · 634
Frequently asked questions
About HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 849 students in grades 06-07.
Is HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-07.
How many teachers does HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
What is the student diversity at HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 59% White, 26% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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