SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized high schools in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, part of SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 694 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 9. Compared to the state average of about 510 students per school, that is 36% above typical.

SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 22,685 students; SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 15% Pacific Islander, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 58%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.4%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the area at large, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Washington County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JOHN TYSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 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), SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has expanded 9%, going from 634 students in 2018 to 694 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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