Summary:
The Booneville School District is home to one middle school, Booneville Junior High School, which serves 299 students in grades 7 through 9 in Arkansas. The school has a 100% free and reduced lunch rate, indicating a high level of economic need, and maintains a favorable student-teacher ratio of 11.7 to 1, with per-student spending of $12,242.
Booneville Junior High School shows a fascinating split in math performance. The standout achievement is in Geometry, where 83.3% of 9th graders were proficient in 2025-2026, far exceeding the state average of 59.2% and representing a massive 61.1 percentage point improvement from the prior year. However, Algebra proficiency is a significant weakness, with only 25.8% of students overall and just 11.3% of 9th graders meeting the standard. In core subjects, the school trails state averages in English Language Arts (33.1% vs. 39.4%), Reading (31.4% vs. 40.4%), and Mathematics (39.5% vs. 44.1%), but Science proficiency (44.0%) exactly matches the state average. The school is ranked 184th out of 327 schools in Arkansas, placing it in the 44th percentile with a 2-star rating.
Encouragingly, the school showed strong year-over-year improvement in all core subjects from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, with Mathematics jumping 9.5 percentage points and English Language Arts rising 5.9 points. English Language Arts proficiency is remarkably consistent across all three grade levels (around 33%), suggesting a systemic challenge rather than a grade-specific issue. The 8th grade Mathematics proficiency (40.4%) actually exceeds the state average (36.2%), offering a bright spot for that grade level. Overall, while the school faces significant challenges tied to its high-poverty population, the positive trends and standout Geometry performance suggest targeted instructional changes may be gaining traction.
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