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Enrollment
743
Middle
DISTRICT 714 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SILOAM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051245001004
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
600 S. DOGWOOD ST., SILOAM SPRINGS, AR 72761 · (479) 524-6184 · Benton County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL743 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Arkansas public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
437 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 7 | 386 | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 357 | 48% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL→SILOAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL CONVERSION CHARTER
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SILOAM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
33.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
32.7%
AR avg 38.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 32.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.7% | 30.0% |
% 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
37.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (37.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 743 | 58.8% | 37.4% |
| SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SILOAM SPRINGS | 684 | 64.8% | 35.6% |
| BATESVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHARTER BATESVILLE | 690 | 67.8% | 36.6% |
| LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ROGERS | 643 | 57.2% | 47.3% |
| RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL RUSSELLVILLE | 795 | 66.3% | 37.2% |
| BERRYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 421 | 66.5% | 39.2% |
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 SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #97 of 207 | #15 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #128 of 208 ▲ 4 | #18 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #105 of 208 ▲ 12 | #15 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 743 | #29 of 217 | #5 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #129 of 188 | #9 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #21 of 188 | #1 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #127 of 210 | #4 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.4% | #18 of 61 | #5 of 10 |
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
743
+73 (+11%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 517
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 743 | 48.8 | 15.2:1 | 59% (437) |
| 2023-24 | 696 | 46 | 15.1:1 | 57% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 693 | 49.9 | 13.9:1 | 56% (389) |
| 2020-21 | 670 | 49 | 13.7:1 | 40% (271) |
| 2017-18 | 644 | 49.8 | 12.9:1 | 35% (224) |
| 2015-16 | 650 | 49 | 13.3:1 | 55% (355) |
| 2010-11 | 921 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 52% (479) |
| 2000-01 | 626 | 48 | 13.0:1 | 39% (246) |
| 1990-91 | 517 | 27 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is classified as a middle school. It is located in SILOAM SPRINGS, Arkansas. Its grade span covers grades 7 through 8, with 743 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 464 students for middle schools in Arkansas.
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits within SILOAM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 6 schools and 4,702 students.
The student body at SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has no majority group. White students lead at 45%. Enrollment also includes 37% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian. The school's White share is 15 points below the 60% share among Benton County residents. A diversity index of 65% means there is a 65% chance two randomly chosen students at SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 48.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1. The school's 15.2:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for middle schools in Arkansas. The school has 59% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 37% average for public schools in Benton County.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
A school with SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 38.0%. SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 37.4%, within a point of that line.
Looking at the county, Benton County, the median household earns about $93,506 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Benton County has 88 public schools with about 57,071 students, including SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
The closest school to SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd of 6 on proficiency.
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the Town: Distant locale category, used for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 743, compared with 670 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.2:1.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SILOAM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SILOAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL CONVERSION CHARTERHigh · 1,475 students
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 699 students
- SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 684 students
- DELBERT PETE & PAT ALLEN ELEMENTARYElementary · 671 students
- NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 430 students
Other schools in SILOAM SPRINGS
- SILOAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL CONVERSION CHARTERHigh · 1,475 students
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 699 students
- SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 684 students
- DELBERT PETE & PAT ALLEN ELEMENTARYElementary · 671 students
- NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 430 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 699
- NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 430
- SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 684
- DELBERT PETE & PAT ALLEN ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 671
- SILOAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL CONVERSION CHARTER2.5 mi · 1,475
- Moseley Public School4.1 mi · 183
Frequently asked questions
About SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 743 students in grades 07-08.
Is SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 45% White, 37% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SILOAM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SILOAM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.