RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a moderately sized middle school in CONWAY, Arkansas, RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL teaches 547 students from grades 5 through 7, one of the schools within CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

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

Looking at the student body, RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Faulkner County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Faulkner County shows median household income runs about $67,289, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Faulkner County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), of which RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WOODROW CUMMINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 6%, going from 584 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 57% across the same window.

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