RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL

RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier junior high in CONWAY, Arkansas, run under CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 459 students spanning grades 5 through 7.

CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 10,212 students; RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 32% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Faulkner County shows median household income runs about $67,289, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Faulkner County (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students).

Nearest neighbor: BOB COURTWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RAY PHYLLIS SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 460 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 52% to 47% over that span.

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