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Enrollment
557
Middle
DISTRICT 566 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000621
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL
1000 E. ROOSEVELT, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72206 · (501) 447-3100 · Pulaski County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of Arkansas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
13.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
554 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 156 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 212 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 34% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
17.1%
AR avg 34.9% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
15.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.1% | 15.6% |
| 2023-24 | 14.9% | 9.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 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 MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (16.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 557 | 99.5% | 16.6% |
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUS NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 548 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| DUNBAR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 315 | 99.0% | 7.5% |
| MABELVALE MIDDLE SCHOOL MABELVALE | 477 | 99.4% | 6.7% |
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 1,036 | 100.0% | 19.9% |
| CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMDEN | 421 | 99.3% | 11.5% |
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 MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #190 of 207 | #14 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #187 of 208 ▲ 8 | #11 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #187 of 208 ▲ 8 | #12 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #72 of 217 | #9 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #83 of 188 | #12 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.7% | #106 of 188 | #17 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #38 of 210 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.2% | #16 of 114 | #5 of 9 |
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
557
-219 (-28%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 886
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 557 | 40.6 | 13.7:1 | 99% (554) |
| 2023-24 | 641 | 46.3 | 13.8:1 | 84% (539) |
| 2022-23 | 618 | 46.7 | 13.2:1 | 83% (516) |
| 2020-21 | 776 | 59 | 13.2:1 | 100% (776) |
| 2017-18 | 810 | 63.5 | 12.8:1 | 33% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 815 | 62 | 13.2:1 | 70% (570) |
| 2010-11 | 829 | 58 | 14.3:1 | 56% (467) |
| 2000-01 | 852 | 71 | 12.0:1 | 31% (267) |
| 1990-91 | 886 | 52 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL
Among the schools in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, is MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle school. Enrollment is 557 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Arkansas is about 464 students, so this school is 20% bigger than average.
Besides MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 39 other schools. The district enrolls 22,320 students.
A majority of students at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, 74%, are Black. The next largest groups are 17% Hispanic, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. The school's Black share is 37 points above the 37% share among Pulaski County residents. MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 42%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Staffing totals 40.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.7:1. Across middle schools in Arkansas, the average ratio is about 13.9:1. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is 99%. Among public schools in Pulaski County, the average eligibility rate is 71%.
Measured against Arkansas public middle schools, MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 16.6%, compared with a predicted 22.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Pulaski County (population about 399,818), median household income is about $62,873, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. A total of 133 public schools operate in Pulaski County, serving about 64,124 students.
ROCKEFELLER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the public school closest to MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency of 16.6% compares with 26.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal counts put enrollment at 776 in 2020-21 and 557 in 2024-25, a 28% decrease.
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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 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- ROCKEFELLER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER0.5 mi · 317
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 315
- ESTEM HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 676
- ESTEM EAST VILLAGE JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL1.3 mi · 280
- ESTEM JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL1.3 mi · 401
- DUNBAR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 557 students in grades 06-08.
Is MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 13.7:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 17% Hispanic, 74% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
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