MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an intimate K-5 school in FLORAL, Arkansas, operated by MIDLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 418.

MIDLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 513 students. MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Independence County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Independence County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,609 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Independence County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,855 students), MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MIDLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025.

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