Summary:
The Magnolia School District in Arkansas has only one middle school, Magnolia Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Arkansas middle schools, with a 1-out-of-5-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating it is performing significantly below the state average.
Magnolia Middle School's proficiency rates in core subjects like English Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, and Science are all well below the state averages for Arkansas. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates were 27.1% in English Language Arts, 25.4% in Reading, 24.8% in Mathematics, and 29.1% in Science, compared to state averages of 34.7%, 35.3%, 38.7%, and 38.1%, respectively. The school also has a high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, at 74.43% in 2023-2024.
Despite the school's low performance, it appears to have adequate funding and resources, with a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10.8 and a per-student spending level of $10,366 for the 2018-2019 school year, which is higher than the state average. This suggests that the challenges the school is facing may be more complex than just a lack of resources, and further investigation may be needed to identify the root causes of the school's underperformance and develop targeted strategies to address these issues.
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