JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in JACKSONVILLE, Arkansas, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school, one of the schools within JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 926 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 464 students each, so JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 100% larger than that benchmark.

JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,360 students; JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 57%; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pulaski County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.7%; this one comes in at 13.6%, -28.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Pulaski County shows median household earnings sit near $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students).

JACKSONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 926). White enrollment moved from 34% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.