WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier middle-grades schools in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas, overseen by WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 511 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9.

WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,511 students. WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (96%) are Black. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Crittenden County (around 90%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.3%; WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 5.8%, -16.5 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Crittenden County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $55,358 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 19 public schools in Crittenden County (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students).

The closest other public school is JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 15.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 30%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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