PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized intermediate school in PEA RIDGE, Arkansas, overseen by PEA RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 643 students in grades 7 through 9. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 464 students each, so PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

PEA RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,670 students. PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 2% Native American, 2% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Benton County reports that median household earnings sit near $93,506, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PEA RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEA RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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