PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in FOUKE, Arkansas, PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small intermediate school, overseen by FOUKE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 244 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

FOUKE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,107 students. PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miller County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Miller County shows median household income runs about $48,836, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Miller County (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students).

FOUKE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PAULETTE SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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