LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 901 N 13TH ST, in ROGERS, Arkansas, LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized intermediate school that caters to 643 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 39% larger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 23 schools operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 15,688 students overall.

Demographically, LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 46% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Benton County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Benton County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Benton County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,506 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GRACE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 930 students in 2018 compared to 643 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.