VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in VILONIA, Arkansas, VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-tier intermediate school, one of the schools within VILONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 451 students across grades 7 through 8.

VILONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,963 students. VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Faulkner County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 42.9%; actual is 58.6%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Faulkner County shows median household earnings sit near $67,289, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Faulkner County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

VILONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. VILONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 510 (now 451). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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