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Enrollment
808
High
DISTRICT 1,045 · STATE 510
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051206000968
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
2000 WEST PARKWAY, RUSSELLVILLE, AR 72801 · (479) 968-1599 · Pope County
GRADES 08–09HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL808 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Arkansas public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 8.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
510 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 397 | 49% |
| Grade 9 | 410 | 51% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
32.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
39.2%
AR avg 38.9% . +14.0pp 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 39 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 up about 14 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.2% | 39.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 25.2% |
% 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
35.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (35.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 808 | 63.1% | 35.7% |
| BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CHARTER BATESVILLE | 986 | 60.2% | 27.4% |
| DARDANELLE HIGH SCHOOL DARDANELLE | 686 | 65.5% | 40.3% |
| RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RUSSELLVILLE | 1,281 | 56.9% | 33.2% |
| BERRYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 547 | 70.7% | 34.8% |
| VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 1,232 | 57.9% | 31.4% |
Matched among Arkansas high 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 RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pope County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #69 of 272 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #47 of 132 ▲ 32 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #122 of 280 ▼ 15 | #5 of 6 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 808 | #50 of 310 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #206 of 245 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #50 of 246 | #2 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.1% | #147 of 273 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #77 of 105 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
808
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 713
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 808 | 65.2 | 12.4:1 | 63% (510) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 62.9 | 14.1:1 | 64% (565) |
| 2022-23 | 901 | 61.7 | 14.6:1 | 49% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 803 | 68 | 11.8:1 | 59% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 63.9 | 12.1:1 | 33% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 807 | 61 | 13.2:1 | 55% (443) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 61 | 12.8:1 | 53% (414) |
| 2000-01 | 833 | 112 | 7.4:1 | 28% (233) |
| 1990-91 | 713 | 36 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
This page covers RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a large high school in RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas. The school serves 808 students in grades 8 through 9 in 2024-25. The average among high schools in Arkansas is roughly 510 students; this school is 58% bigger than that.
Within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 schools. The district enrolls 5,591 students.
White students make up a majority at RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, at 57%. Other students are 31% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 5% Black. That is lower than the 84% White share among all Pope County residents. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 12.4:1 comes from the school's 65.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 8.8:1 average for high schools in Arkansas. The lunch program counts 63% of students at RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 64% average for public schools in Pope County.
allk12 grades RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 35.7% is within a point of the 36.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Federal survey data for Pope County show that the median household income is $57,344, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Pope County is home to 25 public schools and about 10,311 public school students.
DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located about 0.8 miles from RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 35.7% is below the 36.7% average for nearby schools.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal data show 803 students in 2020-21 and 808 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
The RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pope County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,131
Census ACS
Median income
$57,344
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,311 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
Nearby schools
- DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 234
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 436
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 795
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 542
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF RUSSELLVILLE1.6 mi · 31
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 808 students in grades 08-09.
What age range does RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 08 through grade 09.
How many teachers does RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 65 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
How diverse is RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 57% White, 31% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pope County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.