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What's the most underrated thing about RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
801
Middle
DISTRICT 755 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000371
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
3201 JENNY LIND RD, FORT SMITH, AR 72901 · (479) 783-5115 · Sebastian County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL801 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
545 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 285 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 252 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 264 | 33% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
34.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.2% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 34.6% | 35.6% |
% 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
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 801 | 68.0% | 37.2% |
| L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 753 | 55.4% | 54.8% |
| BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL BRYANT AR | 774 | 63.0% | 37.4% |
| JOHN L COLBERT MIDDLE SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 466 | 62.4% | 35.8% |
| BATESVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHARTER BATESVILLE | 690 | 67.8% | 36.6% |
| SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SILOAM SPRINGS | 684 | 64.8% | 35.6% |
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 RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #103 of 207 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #116 of 208 ▼ 14 | #5 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #98 of 208 ▼ 7 | #4 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 801 | #16 of 217 | #1 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #91 of 188 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.4% | #9 of 188 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #89 of 210 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #71 of 114 | N/A |
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
801
-123 (-13%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 791
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 801 | 57.3 | 14.0:1 | 68% (545) |
| 2023-24 | 808 | 54 | 15.0:1 | 67% (539) |
| 2022-23 | 832 | 61.3 | 13.6:1 | 67% (559) |
| 2020-21 | 924 | 68 | 13.6:1 | 65% (602) |
| 2017-18 | 890 | 64.8 | 13.7:1 | 30% (270) |
| 2015-16 | 915 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 56% (511) |
| 2010-11 | 961 | 57 | 16.9:1 | 51% (486) |
| 2000-01 | 866 | 60 | 14.4:1 | 21% (186) |
| 1990-91 | 791 | 45 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, located in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, is a large middle-grades school. It educates 801 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Arkansas is about 464 students.
FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 27 schools with 14,164 students in all.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. The largest is White students, at 49%. Next come 19% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 10% Black, and 5% Asian. That compares with about 68% White among all Sebastian County residents. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 57.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.0 students per teacher. For comparison, middle schools in Arkansas average 13.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 68% of students.
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 37.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 34.5%.
Federal survey data for Sebastian County show that the median household income is $57,790, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Sebastian County is home to 44 public schools and about 20,239 public school students.
The closest public school, FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is down 13% from 2020-21, when RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL had 924 students, to 2024-25, when it had 801.
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 582 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 582 students
Other Ramsey Middle schools
One other US public school is named Ramsey Middle. RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Ramsey MiddleLouisville, KY · 1,151 students
Nearby schools
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 582
- BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 286
- Arkoma Middle School1.2 mi · 68
- Arkoma High School1.2 mi · 110
- CARNALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 172
- RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 235
Frequently asked questions
About RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 801 students in grades 06-08.
Is RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 49% White, 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.