PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is an average-sized intermediate school, part of PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 610 students across grades 7 through 9. Compared to the state average of about 464 students per school, that is 31% bigger than typical.

PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,896 students. PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 57% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 8.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $51,096 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Jefferson County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students), PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.2%.

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