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What's the one class at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
926
Middle
DISTRICT 623 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050041901510
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
2300 LINDA LANE, JACKSONVILLE, AR 72076 · (501) 457-8320 · Pulaski County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL926 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Arkansas public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
12.1:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
430 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 315 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 281 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 330 | 36% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
12.8%
AR avg 34.9% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
8.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.8% | 8.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.4% | 7.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
12.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (12.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 926 | 46.4% | 12.8% |
| SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 772 | 56.7% | 30.7% |
| CARL STUART MIDDLE SCHOOL CONWAY | 752 | 51.1% | 47.4% |
| PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 585 | 59.0% | 32.8% |
| MAUMELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL MAUMELLE | 498 | 58.8% | 18.7% |
| GOZA MIDDLE SCHOOL ARKADELPHIA | 560 | 59.1% | 32.5% |
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 JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #196 of 207 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #201 of 208 ▼ 1 | #16 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #198 of 208 ▼ 6 | #16 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 926 | #4 of 217 | #2 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #38 of 188 | #5 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #39 of 188 | #7 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #167 of 210 | #18 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.1% | #21 of 61 | N/A |
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
926
+104 (+13%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 926 | 76.8 | 12.1:1 | 46% (430) |
| 2023-24 | 929 | 66.7 | 13.9:1 | 100% (929) |
| 2022-23 | 966 | 72.9 | 13.3:1 | 100% (965) |
| 2020-21 | 822 | 58 | 14.2:1 | 100% (820) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 55.5 | 14.9:1 | 64% (527) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is classified as a middle school. It is located in JACKSONVILLE, Arkansas. It enrolled 926 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in Arkansas average about 464 students each.
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the 7 schools that make up JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,360 students in total).
Black students make up a majority at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, at 57%. Next come 23% White, 12% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 37% Black among all Pulaski County residents. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 76.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.1:1. On average, middle schools in Arkansas have 13.9:1, compared with 12.1:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 46%. That is lower than the 71% average for public schools in Pulaski County.
allk12 grades JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL an F. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 29.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 12.8% actual versus 42.6% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Pulaski County this way: the median household income is $62,873, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. In all, Pulaski County has 133 public schools and roughly 64,124 students.
JACKSONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 12.8% is below the 18.6% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 13% from 2020-21, when JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL had 822 students, to 2024-25, when it had 926. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.1:1, from 14.2:1.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT
- JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,208 students
- JACKSONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 733 students
- MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- BOBBY G LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- BAYOU METO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- ADKINS PRESCHOOL CENTERElementary · 228 students
Other schools in JACKSONVILLE
- JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,208 students
- JACKSONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 733 students
- MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- BOBBY G LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- BAYOU METO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- ADKINS PRESCHOOL CENTERElementary · 228 students
Other Jacksonville Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Jacksonville Middle. JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Jacksonville Middle SchoolJacksonville, IL · 680 students
- Jacksonville Middle SchoolJACKSONVILLE, TX · 629 students
Nearby schools
- JACKSONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 733
- JACKSONVILLE LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 210
- JACKSONVILLE LIGHTHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 60
- JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,208
- JACKSONVILLE LIGHTHOUSE FLIGHTLINE ACADEMY2.0 mi · 156
- MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 926 students in grades 06-08.
Is JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 12.1:1 (77 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 23% White, 12% Hispanic, 57% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.