ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL

ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment junior high in ELKINS, Arkansas, part of ELKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 394 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 4 schools in ELKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,462 students total), ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL records that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest consists of 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Washington County's rate of about 58%.

After controlling for student poverty, ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Washington County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ELKINS PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL has grew 46%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 89% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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