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What's the most underrated thing about NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,036
Middle
DISTRICT 792 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051068000788
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL
2400 LAKEVIEW ROAD, NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR 72116 · (501) 771-8200 · Pulaski County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,036 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
1,036 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 7 | 501 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 535 | 52% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
Based on grade levels within NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
16.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
10.6%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.9pp 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 11 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.7% | 10.6% |
| 2023-24 | 20.6% | 12.5% |
% 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
19.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (19.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,036 | 100.0% | 19.9% |
| DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL JONESBORO | 765 | 100.0% | 26.9% |
| ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL TEXARKANA | 842 | 100.0% | 20.6% |
| ANNIE CAMP JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL JONESBORO | 701 | 100.0% | 25.6% |
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUS NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 548 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 557 | 99.5% | 16.6% |
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 NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #184 of 207 | #11 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #197 of 208 ▼ 5 | #15 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #188 of 208 ▼ 12 | #13 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,036 | #3 of 217 | #1 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #99 of 188 | #14 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.0% | #65 of 188 | #9 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #27 of 210 | #1 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.3% | #4 of 114 | #1 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
1,036
-154 (-13%) vs 2020
+83% since 1990-91, when it was 567
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 1,036 | 73 | 14.2:1 | 100% (1,036) |
| 2023-24 | 1,052 | 77.4 | 13.6:1 | 100% (1,052) |
| 2022-23 | 1,115 | 97 | 11.5:1 | 100% (1,115) |
| 2020-21 | 1,190 | 94 | 12.7:1 | 100% (1,190) |
| 2017-18 | 1,765 | 126.3 | 14.0:1 | 27% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 1,799 | 110 | 16.4:1 | 71% (1,280) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 45 | 15.4:1 | 51% (357) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 28% (131) |
| 1990-91 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school in NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, administered by NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. Its grade span covers grades 7 through 8, with 1,036 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 464 students for middle schools in Arkansas.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL falls under NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 14 schools enrolling 7,711 students.
At NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL, 62% of students are Black. The remaining students are 17% White, 15% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Pulaski County is about 37% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 56%.
The school had 73 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Arkansas is similar, at 13.9:1. The school reported 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 71% average for public schools in Pulaski County is 29 points.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL would score about 22.7%. It scores 19.9%, 2.8 points below that figure.
For the population of Pulaski County, the median household earns about $62,873 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Pulaski County with 132 other public schools.
The closest school to NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL is NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUS, located less than a tenth of a mile away. NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency of 19.9% compares with 37.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 13%. By 2024-25, the school had 14.2 students per teacher, compared with 12.7 in 2020-21.
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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 NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,652 students
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUSMiddle · 548 students
- RIDGE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK CENTER OF EXCELLENCEHigh · 472 students
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
- CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
Other schools in NORTH LITTLE ROCK
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,652 students
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUSMiddle · 548 students
- RIDGE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- CRYSTAL HILL ELEMENTARYElementary · 499 students
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK CENTER OF EXCELLENCEHigh · 472 students
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
Nearby schools
- NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUS0.0 mi · 548
- LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 427
- CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 466
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 654
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 292
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 353
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,036 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 14.2:1 (73 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 17% White, 15% Hispanic, 62% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
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