Enrollment
179
Middle
DISTRICT 280 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050840001202
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
820 RAIDER DR, SEARCY, AR 72143 · (501) 279-7111 · White County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL179 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 13% 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.
- DBeats 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
11.0:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
137 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 7 | 88 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 91 | 51% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
21.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
26.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.7% | 26.3% |
| 2023-24 | 25.6% | 14.8% |
% 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
22.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (22.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 179 | 76.5% | 22.8% |
| SWIFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL TUCKERMAN | 189 | 74.1% | 34.3% |
| CAVE CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CAREER AND COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY CAVE CITY | 259 | 79.2% | 46.1% |
| ASHDOWN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ASHDOWN | 278 | 70.9% | 28.0% |
| EUREKA SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL EUREKA SPRINGS | 192 | 62.0% | 47.5% |
| CORNING MIDDLE SCHOOL CORNING | 227 | 69.6% | 37.2% |
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 RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In White County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #171 of 207 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #162 of 208 ▲ 25 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #166 of 208 ▼ 20 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 179 | #198 of 217 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.5% | #68 of 210 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #41 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
179
-13 (-7%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 222
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 179 | 16.2 | 11.0:1 | 77% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 195 | 17.5 | 11.1:1 | 78% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 213 | 20 | 10.6:1 | 77% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 192 | 17 | 11.3:1 | 73% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 213 | 23.9 | 8.9:1 | 34% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 204 | 16 | 12.8:1 | 76% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 222 | 15 | 14.8:1 | 74% (164) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a small middle school that serves part of SEARCY, Arkansas. The school had 179 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Arkansas) has about 464 students.
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports to RIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 4 schools and 1,120 students.
Roughly 72% of students at RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL are White. Other groups make up 12% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 87% of White County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 16.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL was 11.0:1. On average, middle schools in Arkansas have 13.9:1, compared with 11.0:1 here. RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 77%. It compares with 60% for public schools in White County.
Measured against Arkansas public middle schools, RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 31.4% for RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 22.8%, 8.5 points below the prediction.
Within White County, the median household income is $55,249, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. In all, White County has 27 public schools and roughly 12,342 students.
The closest other public school is RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 9th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 22.8% against a local average of 35.3%.
For locale, NCES codes RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL as Town: Distant.
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment dropped from 192 in 2020-21 to 179 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
White County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,838
Census ACS
Median income
$55,249
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
12,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 340 students
- JUDSONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 307 students
- KENSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 294 students
Other schools in SEARCY
- SEARCY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,220 students
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 913 students
- AHLF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 576 students
- MCRAE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 445 students
- SIDNEY DEENER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 421 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 398 students
Other Riverview Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Riverview Junior High. RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Riverview Jr HighMURRAY, UT · 614 students
Nearby schools
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 340
- SIDNEY DEENER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 421
- KENSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 294
- AHLF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.9 mi · 576
- MCRAE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 445
- JUDSONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 179 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 07-08.
How many teachers does RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the student diversity at RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 72% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of RIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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