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What's one thing PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
585
Middle
DISTRICT 566 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000628
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL
401 N PINE, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72205 · (501) 447-3200 · Pulaski County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL585 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
345 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 200 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 170 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 215 | 37% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
32.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
22.6%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.2% | 22.6% |
| 2023-24 | 32.6% | 25.1% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (32.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 585 | 59.0% | 32.8% |
| MAUMELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL MAUMELLE | 498 | 58.8% | 18.7% |
| SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 772 | 56.7% | 30.7% |
| BARTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL EL DORADO | 540 | 65.4% | 39.4% |
| WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL EL DORADO | 581 | 67.1% | 31.2% |
| GOZA MIDDLE SCHOOL ARKADELPHIA | 560 | 59.1% | 32.5% |
Matched among Arkansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #127 of 207 | #7 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #174 of 208 ▼ 17 | #9 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #114 of 208 ▼ 7 | #7 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 585 | #62 of 217 | #8 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #101 of 188 | #15 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.9% | #75 of 188 | #13 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.0% | #124 of 210 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #70 of 114 | #8 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
585
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 720
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 585 | 41 | 14.3:1 | 59% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 584 | 39.9 | 14.7:1 | 61% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 38.6 | 14.2:1 | 57% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 600 | 48 | 12.5:1 | 55% (327) |
| 2017-18 | 651 | 53.1 | 12.3:1 | 20% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 807 | 64 | 12.6:1 | 53% (424) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 57 | 15.5:1 | 39% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 748 | 62 | 12.1:1 | 41% (307) |
| 1990-91 | 720 | 47 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, is home to PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized middle-grades school. Its enrollment is 585 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Arkansas enroll around 464, and this school is 26% larger than that mark.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 22,320 students, and its 40 schools include PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The share of Black students at PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 57%, a majority. Other students are 36% White and 4% Hispanic. That is higher than the 37% Black share among all Pulaski County residents. A diversity index of 54% means there is a 54% chance two randomly chosen students at PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 41 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1. The average for middle schools in Arkansas is about 13.9:1. At PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, 59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Pulaski County average 71%.
On the allk12 Grade, PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 28% of Arkansas public middle schools.
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (32.8%) and its predicted rate (37.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools.
For Pulaski County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $62,873 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Pulaski County number 133, with about 64,124 students.
The closest school to PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's size has been steady, with 600 students in 2020-21 and 585 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.5:1 to 14.3:1.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 266
- ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 32
- ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ELEM0.7 mi · 30
- FAIR PARK EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.0 mi · 195
- SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF1.0 mi · 104
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 379
Frequently asked questions
About PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 585 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 36% White, 4% Hispanic, 57% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.