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What's the one class at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
718
Middle
DISTRICT 672 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050306001571
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
5303 BRIGHT ROAD, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712 · (479) 802-7000 · Benton County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL718 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Arkansas public middle schools
- A+Test 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
14.3:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
80 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 7 | 374 | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 344 | 48% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
70.4%
AR avg 34.9% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
76.7%
AR avg 38.9% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 76.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.6% | 69.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 718 | 11.1% | 72.0% |
| BRIGHT FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 697 | 4.6% | 76.3% |
| CREEKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 635 | 27.7% | 53.6% |
| GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 846 | 24.5% | 57.0% |
| LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 723 | 20.1% | 68.3% |
| RUTH BARKER MIDDLE SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 530 | 29.8% | 58.0% |
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 J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #2 of 207 | #2 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.7% | #2 of 208 ▲ 1 | #2 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #2 of 208 no change | #2 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 718 | #33 of 217 | #7 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #100 of 188 | #4 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #70 of 188 | #11 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.1% | #209 of 210 | #19 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #29 of 114 | #3 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
718
+79 (+12%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 718 | 50.3 | 14.3:1 | 11% (80) |
| 2023-24 | 674 | 47 | 14.3:1 | 12% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 666 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 14% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 639 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 14% (89) |
| 2017-18 | 914 | 68.7 | 13.3:1 | 12% (107) |
| 2015-16 | 856 | 60 | 14.3:1 | 19% (166) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a large middle school. Its address is in BENTONVILLE, Arkansas. The school has 718 students in 2024-25 across grades 7 through 8. That compares with an average of about 464 students for middle schools in Arkansas.
BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 24 schools and 19,575 students, J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL among them.
Federal enrollment data show J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 63% White. Other groups include 18% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Black. In Benton County overall, the White share is about 60%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 55%.
Staffing at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes to 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.3:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Arkansas is similar, at 13.9:1. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL counts 11% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 37% average for public schools in Benton County, the school's rate is lower.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 98% of Arkansas public middle schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 55.7%. It actually posts 72.0%, which is 16.4 points higher and in the top 10% of Arkansas schools.
Benton County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $93,506, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Benton County's 88 public schools enroll about 57,071 students and include J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest public school to J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment increased 12% over 4 years, reaching 718 in 2024-25.
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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 BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,579 students
- BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,661 students
- GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARYElementary · 725 students
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 723 students
- EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 716 students
Other schools in BENTONVILLE
- ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS ACADEMY HIGHCombined · 4,575 students
- BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,579 students
- BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,661 students
- GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 723 students
- EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 716 students
Nearby schools
- WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 671
- BRIGHT FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 697
- CENTRAL PARK AT MORNING STAR0.3 mi · 604
- OSAGE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 551
- CREEKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 635
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS ROGERS2.0 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 718 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 14.3:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 63% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 18% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Benton County.
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