KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in ROGERS, Arkansas, KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school, one of the schools within ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 890 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 92% larger than the state mean of about 464.

ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 15,688 students; KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 35% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Benton County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 47.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Benton County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,506 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Benton County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JONES 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 8%, going from 967 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 35% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.