POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in POTTSVILLE, Arkansas, POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized intermediate school, run under POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 412 students across grades 7 through 9.

POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,838 students. POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pope County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pope County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,344 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pope County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,311 students), POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 402 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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