SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-sized junior high in SOUTHSIDE, Arkansas, one of the schools within SOUTHSIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Independence), serves 427 students, covering grades 7 through 9.

Across the 4 schools in SOUTHSIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Independence) (2,193 students total), SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Independence County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Across the wider county, Independence County reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,609 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Independence County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,855 students), SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHSIDE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting. SOUTHSIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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