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Enrollment
670
Middle
DISTRICT 625 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050612000856
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL
3030 EAST MISSION BLVD, FAYETTEVILLE, AR 72703 · (479) 527-3660 · Washington County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL670 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Arkansas public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
18.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
144 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 5 | 321 | 48% |
| Grade 6 | 349 | 52% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
65.7%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
67.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.7% | 67.2% |
| 2023-24 | 62.6% | 68.1% |
% 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
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 670 | 21.5% | 65.5% |
| WASHINGTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 709 | 21.2% | 65.8% |
| OLD HIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 618 | 17.2% | 63.7% |
| VALLEY VIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL JONESBORO | 699 | 30.9% | 51.1% |
| WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 765 | 29.8% | 62.4% |
| EAST HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL GREENWOOD | 632 | 31.3% | 49.2% |
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 MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #5 of 207 | #1 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #4 of 208 ▲ 1 | #1 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #3 of 208 ▲ 1 | #1 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #46 of 217 | #6 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #180 of 188 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #121 of 188 | #14 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.5% | #204 of 210 | #17 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #67 of 114 | #6 of 8 |
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
670
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
+5% since 2000-01, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 670 | 35.7 | 18.8:1 | 21% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 761 | 41 | 18.6:1 | 19% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 746 | 44 | 17.0:1 | 17% (124) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 43 | 16.0:1 | 24% (168) |
| 2017-18 | 747 | 50.4 | 14.8:1 | 14% (106) |
| 2015-16 | 725 | 45 | 16.1:1 | 21% (155) |
| 2010-11 | 671 | 42 | 16.0:1 | 23% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 638 | 48 | 13.3:1 | 14% (92) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school. Its address is in FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas. It reported 670 students in grades 5 through 6 in 2024-25. By comparison, middle schools in Arkansas enroll about 464 students on average.
FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL and 16 other schools, with 10,291 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is 79% White. Next come 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 63% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 36, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL totals 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.8:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas, this school's ratio is higher. Federal data show 21% of students (144) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Washington County, the average eligibility rate is 58%.
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Arkansas public middle schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.8% for MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL. The school posts 65.5%, 13.7 points above the prediction.
For the population of Washington County, median household income comes to about $70,639, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Washington County's 76 public schools enroll about 42,451 students and include MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL.
VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is City: Mid-size.
The school shrank from 688 students in 2020-21 to 670 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 18.8:1.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
- BUTTERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 567 students
Other schools in FAYETTEVILLE
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
- BUTTERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 567 students
Other Mcnair Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Mcnair Middle. MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- McNair Middle SchoolCollege Park, GA · 727 students
- McNair Middle SchoolDecatur, GA · 701 students
Nearby schools
- VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 558
- ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 445
- BUTTERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 567
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE2.0 mi · 14
- HAPPY HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 521
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 765
Frequently asked questions
About MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 670 students in grades 05-06.
What grades does MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 18.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 79% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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