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What's something SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
772
Middle
DISTRICT 574 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000942
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
10020 BAMBO LANE, SHERWOOD, AR 72120 · (501) 234-2720 · Pulaski County
GRADES 06–07MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL772 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Arkansas public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.5:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
438 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 6 | 377 | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 395 | 51% |
Student demographics
63%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
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL→SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
23.9%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
27.5%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.9% | 27.5% |
| 2023-24 | 22.2% | 29.3% |
% 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
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 772 | 56.7% | 30.7% |
| PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 585 | 59.0% | 32.8% |
| MAUMELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL MAUMELLE | 498 | 58.8% | 18.7% |
| GOZA MIDDLE SCHOOL ARKADELPHIA | 560 | 59.1% | 32.5% |
| CARL STUART MIDDLE SCHOOL CONWAY | 752 | 51.1% | 47.4% |
| BARTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL EL DORADO | 540 | 65.4% | 39.4% |
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 SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #140 of 207 | #8 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #157 of 208 ▼ 20 | #7 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #160 of 208 ▲ 10 | #10 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 772 | #19 of 217 | #4 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #79 of 188 | #11 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #30 of 188 | #6 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.7% | #134 of 210 | #15 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.2% | #10 of 114 | #3 of 9 |
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
772
-328 (-30%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 952
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 772 | 57.3 | 13.5:1 | 57% (438) |
| 2023-24 | 826 | 56.8 | 14.6:1 | 52% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 1,122 | 76.3 | 14.7:1 | 52% (582) |
| 2020-21 | 1,100 | 72 | 15.3:1 | 39% (424) |
| 2017-18 | 1,174 | 69.1 | 17.0:1 | 27% (316) |
| 2015-16 | 1,208 | 72 | 16.8:1 | 64% (768) |
| 2010-11 | 671 | 52 | 12.9:1 | 55% (372) |
| 2000-01 | 913 | 61 | 15.0:1 | 30% (277) |
| 1990-91 | 952 | 52 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in SHERWOOD, Arkansas, and is classified as a middle school. It had 772 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 7. Middle schools in Arkansas have about 464 students on average; enrollment here is 66% higher.
PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 12,586 students across 26 schools.
The biggest share of students at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL, 50%, is Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% White, 8% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. In Pulaski County overall, about 37% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 63%.
The school has 57.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.5 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. The school reported 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Pulaski County report 71%.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 38.7% for a school in Arkansas with SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 30.7%.
In the surrounding county, Pulaski County, the median household earns about $62,873 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Pulaski County has 133 public schools with about 64,124 students, including SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
CATO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest public school to SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 328 students, from 1,100 to 772. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.5:1) than in 2020-21 (15.3:1).
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 607 students
Other schools in SHERWOOD
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 424 students
Other Sylvan Hills Middle schools
One other US public school is named Sylvan Hills Middle. SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Sylvan Hills Middle SchoolAtlanta, GA · 452 students
Nearby schools
- CATO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 305
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 721
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,120
- SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 516
- OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.6 mi · 408
- BOBBY G LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.7 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 772 students in grades 06-07.
What grades does SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 13.5:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 33% White, 8% Hispanic, 50% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.