Enrollment
327
Middle
DISTRICT 401 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050984000722
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
212 CLYDE ROSS, MONTICELLO, AR 71655 · (870) 367-4040 · Drew County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL327 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
203 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 105 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 122 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 100 | 31% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
21.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
27.3%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.1% | 27.3% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 27.8% |
% 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 327 | 62.1% | 27.1% |
| CROSSETT MIDDLE SCHOOL CROSSETT | 445 | 64.0% | 18.5% |
| MORRILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MORRILTON | 362 | 64.6% | 48.0% |
| STUTTGART JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUTTGART | 234 | 65.8% | 32.1% |
| LONOKE MIDDLE SCHOOL LONOKE | 370 | 64.6% | 37.3% |
| GOZA MIDDLE SCHOOL ARKADELPHIA | 560 | 59.1% | 32.5% |
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 MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #159 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #159 of 208 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.1% | #174 of 208 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 327 | #146 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #62 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #69 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.1% | #117 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.9% | #24 of 114 |
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
327
-106 (-24%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 327 | 25 | 13.1:1 | 62% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 355 | 27.6 | 12.9:1 | 57% (202) |
| 2022-23 | 367 | 28.3 | 13.0:1 | 55% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 433 | 37 | 11.7:1 | 43% (187) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 24% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 437 | 37 | 11.8:1 | 53% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 54% (272) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 43 | 11.4:1 | 43% (212) |
| 1990-91 | 539 | 27 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle-grades school in MONTICELLO, Arkansas. Enrollment is 327 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8. Against the 464-student average for middle schools in Arkansas, enrollment here is 30% lower.
MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools with a combined 1,602 students. MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
White students make up a majority at MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL, at 54%. The remaining students are 39% Black and 4% Hispanic. Census figures show Drew County is about 65% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 13.1:1 comes from the school's 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 0.8 students per teacher below the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 62% in 2024-25. The 79% average for public schools in Drew County is 17 points higher.
allk12 grades MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 27.1% and a predicted 36.8%.
Drew County census figures show that the median household income is $42,824, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 16%. Drew County is home to 10 public schools and about 2,874 public school students.
The school nearest to MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Compared with its nearest neighbors, MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th of 7 on average proficiency.
Federal data place MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Town: Remote locale, which means it is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment is down 24% from 2020-21, when MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL had 433 students, to 2024-25, when it had 327. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 11.7:1 to 13.1:1.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Drew County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
17,046
Census ACS
Median income
$42,824
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
2,874 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 506 students
- MONTICELLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 408 students
- MONTICELLO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 361 students
- MONTICELLO OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION CENTERHigh
Other schools in MONTICELLO
- DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 562 students
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 506 students
- MONTICELLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 408 students
- MONTICELLO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 361 students
- DREW CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 360 students
- DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 340 students
Other Monticello Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Monticello Middle. MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Monticello MiddleMONTICELLO, MN · 860 students
- Monticello Middle SchoolCleveland Heights, OH · 541 students
- Monticello Middle SchoolLongview, WA · 525 students
- Monticello Middle SchoolMonticello, IL · 405 students
- Monticello Middle SchoolMonticello, IA · 305 students
Nearby schools
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 506
- MONTICELLO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 361
- MONTICELLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 408
- ARKANSAS CONSOLIDATE HIGH SCHOOL - VERA LLOYD0.7 mi · 10
- DREW CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 360
- DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 327 students in grades 06-08.
Is MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 54% White, 4% Hispanic, 39% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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