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Enrollment
461
Middle
DISTRICT 486 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050804000529
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
331 W BARTON, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 72301 · (870) 735-3161 · Crittenden County
GRADES 07–09MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL461 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Arkansas public middle schools
- DTest 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
10.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
461 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 | 161 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 143 | 31% |
| Grade 9 | 157 | 34% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
14.3%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
15.7%
AR avg 38.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.3% | 15.7% |
| 2023-24 | 15.3% | 14.0% |
% 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
13.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (13.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 461 | 100.0% | 13.8% |
| CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMDEN | 421 | 99.3% | 11.5% |
| MAGNOLIA MIDDLE SCHOOL MAGNOLIA | 492 | 98.4% | 28.8% |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAGNOLIA | 527 | 99.2% | 29.8% |
| NORTH LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL 6TH GRADE CAMPUS NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 548 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL TEXARKANA | 842 | 100.0% | 20.6% |
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 WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #194 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #186 of 208 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.3% | #194 of 208 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 461 | #99 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #19 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #100 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #19 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #111 of 114 |
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
461
-62 (-12%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 564
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 461 | 42.1 | 10.9:1 | 100% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 100% (471) |
| 2022-23 | 507 | 40.3 | 12.6:1 | 100% (507) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 42 | 12.4:1 | 100% (523) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 38 | 12.3:1 | 71% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 100% (516) |
| 2010-11 | 468 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 99% (465) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 35 | 12.8:1 | 29% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 564 | 31 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school for students in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 461 students in grades 7 through 9.
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a school in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 9 schools and 4,511 students.
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 70% Black by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 26% White and 3% Hispanic. In Crittenden County overall, about 51% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 44% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 42.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL and a ratio of 10.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 100% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Crittenden County average 90%.
The allk12 Grade for WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is D. Compared with Arkansas public middle schools, the school scored higher than 7% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Arkansas schools: 13.8% actual against 22.7% predicted.
Census estimates describe Crittenden County this way: the median household income is $55,358, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Besides WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Crittenden County has 18 other public schools.
The shortest distance from WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 15.5%, higher than WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's 13.8%.
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL declined 12% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 523 to 461 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.4:1 to 10.9:1 over the same years.
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Crittenden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,266
Census ACS
Median income
$55,358
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
8,770 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 554 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 462 students
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 762 students
- JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 554 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
Other West Junior High schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named West Junior High. WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- WEST JUNIOR HIGHBOISE, ID · 717 students
- West Junior High SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 605 students
- West Jr High SchoolBelleville, IL · 364 students
- West Junior High SchoolOakland, TN · 340 students
Nearby schools
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 473
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 897
- RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 462
- MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL1.0 mi · 762
- WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 228
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 461 students in grades 07-09.
Is WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 07-09.
How many students per teacher at WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 26% White, 3% Hispanic, 70% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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