NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL

NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit 6-8 campuss in NORPHLET, Arkansas, run under SMACKOVER NORPHLET SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 338 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 464 students each, so NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 27% below that benchmark.

NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by SMACKOVER NORPHLET SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 1,208 students overall.

On the student-mix side, NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 59% of students at NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,259 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Union County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,933 students), of which NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SMACKOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 5.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORPHLET MIDDLE SCHOOL has climbed 31%, going from 259 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 22% to 16%. Class-load math has grew: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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