Summary:
The middle-school list for Benton CCSD 47 contains one school, Benton Grade School 5-8, serving grades 5–8 in Benton. It enrolls 429 students and has a student–teacher ratio of 12.6 (2024–2025). In 2025–2026, about half of students were proficient in all-grades ELA, while fewer than one-third were proficient in math; the most important finding is that math was 10 percentage points below the state, compared with a 6-point ELA gap.
Because this list has only one school, Benton Grade School 5-8 is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in the group, and there is no meaningful comparison among schools. Its strongest grade-level result against the state was 7th-grade ELA: 59% proficient, 1 point above the state. The largest ELA gap was in grade 8, where 46% were proficient compared with 63% statewide, a 17-point shortfall. In math, grade 6 was the weakest relative result: 22% proficient versus 36% statewide, 15 points below. Eighth-grade science was also notably low, at 31% compared with 52% statewide, a 21-point gap.
Recent results moved further behind the state overall, while eighth-grade science showed the sharpest change. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Benton’s ELA proficiency edged down from 51% to 50% as the state rose from 53% to 56%; the gap widened by 4 points. Math changed from 30% to 29%, while the state rose from 39% to 40%, widening the gap by 1 point. Eighth-grade science fell from 54% to 31%, shifting from above the state to 21 points below. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 27th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026, down from the 59th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025. As context, 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 27%, compared with 24% statewide in 2025–2026. With one school listed, the data cannot show how schools in the area compare with one another.
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