Enrollment
272
Middle
DISTRICT 268 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MALVERN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050924001327
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
614 W MOLINE ST, MALVERN, AR 72104 · (501) 332-6452 · Hot Spring County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C-Test 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
17.1:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
213 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 5 | 128 | 47% |
| Grade 6 | 140 | 51% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MALVERN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
26.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.2pp since 2023
Math
16.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.2% | 16.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 16.5% |
% 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
22.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's state test result (22.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL this school | 272 | 78.3% | 22.8% |
| MALVERN MIDDLE SCHOOL MALVERN | 264 | 76.9% | 29.9% |
| ASHDOWN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ASHDOWN | 278 | 70.9% | 28.0% |
| STUTTGART JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUTTGART | 234 | 65.8% | 32.1% |
| HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL HAMBURG | 344 | 68.6% | 27.7% |
| RIVERVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEARCY | 179 | 76.5% | 22.8% |
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 WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #172 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #185 of 208 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #152 of 208 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #163 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #159 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #10 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.3% | #64 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #30 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
272
-22 (-7%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 272 | 15.9 | 17.1:1 | 78% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 283 | 16 | 17.7:1 | 83% (235) |
| 2022-23 | 256 | 18.1 | 14.2:1 | 75% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 294 | 21 | 14.0:1 | 79% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 345 | 25.5 | 13.5:1 | 36% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 290 | 24 | 12.1:1 | 79% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 19 | 16.2:1 | 73% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 354 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 57% (201) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 22 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
About WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the name of a small middle school in MALVERN, Arkansas. The school serves 272 students in grades 5 through 6 in 2024-25. For comparison, middle schools in Arkansas average about 464 students.
MALVERN SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 4 schools with 1,876 students in all.
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 47%. The school is also 25% Black, 15% multiracial, and 12% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 68%.
The school employs the equivalent of 15.9 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 17.1:1. Among middle schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 13.9:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 78%. That is higher than the 64% average for public schools in Hot Spring County.
Measured against Arkansas public middle schools, WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 22.8% and a predicted 30.7%.
Among Hot Spring County residents, median household income is about $55,405, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 15 public schools in Hot Spring County, which together enroll about 5,410 students.
MALVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located about 1.0 miles from WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Within five miles are 5 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 9th on average proficiency.
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Town: Fringe.
The student count in 2024-25 was 272, 7% below the 294 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.0:1 to 17.1:1.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Hot Spring County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
33,180
Census ACS
Median income
$55,405
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
5,410 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MALVERN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MALVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 781 students
- MALVERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 559 students
- MALVERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 264 students
Other schools in MALVERN
- MALVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 781 students
- MALVERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 559 students
- GLEN ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 507 students
- GLEN ROSE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 468 students
- MAGNET COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
- GLEN ROSE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 327 students
Other Wilson Intermediate schools
One other US public school is named Wilson Intermediate. WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Wilson Intermediate SchoolPekin, IL · 600 students
Nearby schools
- MALVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 781
- MALVERN HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 559
- MALVERN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 264
- MAGNET COVE HIGH SCHOOL4.8 mi · 307
- MAGNET COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.0 mi · 368
- GLEN ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.2 mi · 507
Frequently asked questions
About WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHow large is WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 272 students in grades 05-06.
What grades does WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serve?
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves grades 05-06.
How many students per teacher at WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
How diverse is WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports a student body of 47% White, 12% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 15% Two or more.
What district is WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL in?
WILSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is part of MALVERN SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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