OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a sprawling 6-8 campus in ROGERS, Arkansas, OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL educates 809 students from grades 6 through 8, part of ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 464 students each, so OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 23 schools operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 15,688 students overall.

Looking at the student body, OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 30% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Benton County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Benton County) logs that median household earnings sit near $93,506, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GRACE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 789 (now 809). The White share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 30% over that span.

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