Summary:
The five schools in the South Conway County School District in Morrilton, Arkansas, serve students from Pre-K through 12th grade, and the district itself holds a 3-star rating, ranking 96th out of 251 districts in the state.
The clear academic standout is Morrilton Junior High School, the only school in the district to earn a 4-star rating, ranking in the 87th percentile. It excels particularly in math, with 97.1% of its 8th graders proficient in Algebra, far above the state average. However, this success does not carry over to Morrilton Senior High School, where only 28.9% of students are proficient in Algebra, suggesting a significant challenge in the transition to high school math. The most improved school is Morrilton Elementary School, which jumped from a 2-star to a 3-star rating in one year, with dramatic increases in English Language Arts (27% to 40.8%) and Science (28.3% to 42.1%). In contrast, Morrilton Intermediate School struggles, consistently scoring below the state average in English and Reading, while Morrilton Primary School has the highest per-student spending ($15,841) and the largest class sizes (22.2:1), but no test score data is available to assess its performance.
A key takeaway is that spending does not correlate with performance. The top-performing Junior High spends a moderate $13,241 per student with a low student-teacher ratio of 11.4:1, while the lowest-performing Intermediate School spends the least ($10,246) but has a reasonable ratio of 16.3:1. The district's graduation rate at the high school is 88.4%, slightly below the state average, and the free/reduced lunch rate is highest at the Primary School (81.94%), indicating significant socioeconomic diversity across the schools.
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