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What's the biggest difference between NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
713
Middle
DISTRICT 635 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051341000393
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
120 NORTHRIDGE DRIVE, VAN BUREN, AR 72956 · (479) 471-3126 · Crawford County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL713 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% 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.
- B+Beats 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
16.0:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
366 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 6 | 250 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 225 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 238 | 33% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
47.8%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
52.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.8% | 52.1% |
| 2023-24 | 44.7% | 49.0% |
% 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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 713 | 51.3% | 47.5% |
| AHLF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEARCY | 576 | 49.5% | 46.6% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 581 | 47.3% | 52.0% |
| CABOT JUNIOR HIGH SOUTH CABOT | 699 | 49.5% | 44.7% |
| CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTH CABOT | 747 | 53.9% | 44.9% |
| SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL SEARCY | 913 | 52.5% | 50.2% |
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 NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #46 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #39 of 208 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #30 of 208 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 713 | #34 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #145 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #91 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.3% | #152 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.7% | #17 of 61 |
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
713
+98 (+16%) vs 2020
+53% since 2000-01, when it was 465
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 713 | 44.4 | 16.0:1 | 51% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 43.4 | 17.0:1 | 50% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 753 | 43.7 | 17.2:1 | 46% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 615 | 46 | 13.4:1 | 43% (262) |
| 2017-18 | 616 | 45.9 | 13.4:1 | 36% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 632 | 46 | 13.7:1 | 53% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 24 | 21.5:1 | 45% (234) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 27 | 17.2:1 | 36% (168) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle school that serves part of VAN BUREN, Arkansas. Total enrollment is 713 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. That is 54% larger than the average of about 464 students for middle schools in Arkansas.
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one school in VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 11 schools with 5,703 students.
White students are 70% of those enrolled at NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Crawford County overall, about 81% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes to 44.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.0:1. Middle schools in Arkansas have an average ratio of 13.9:1. On the income side, 51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Crawford County average 65%.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 40.7%. NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 47.5%.
In Crawford County, home to about 61,139 people, median household income comes to about $64,132, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Crawford County's 23 public schools enroll about 10,496 students and include NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About 0.1 miles separate NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, RIVER VALLEY VIRTUAL ACADEMY. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Mid-size).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 615 to 713, a 16% rise. Federal data show the ratio rising from 13.4:1 to 16.0:1.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Crawford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,139
Census ACS
Median income
$64,132
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
10,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 441 students
Other schools in VAN BUREN
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 441 students
Other Northridge Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Northridge Middle. NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Northridge MiddleCharlotte, NC · 1,014 students
- Northridge Middle SchoolMiddlebury, IN · 963 students
- Northridge Middle SchoolTuscaloosa, AL · 775 students
- Northridge MiddleNorthridge, CA · 670 students
- NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLDayton, OH · 355 students
Nearby schools
- RIVER VALLEY VIRTUAL ACADEMY0.1 mi · 79
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 441
- RENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 414
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMY1.3 mi · 468
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,232
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 437
Frequently asked questions
About NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 713 students in grades 06-08.
Is NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
How diverse is NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 70% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT in Crawford County.
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