Public school / Middle
Pinkston Middle School
Mountain Home, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 050004300742
- District
- Mountain Home School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Pinkston Middle School is a public middle school in Mountain Home, Arkansas, run by Mountain Home School District. It enrols 624 students — the 24686th largest of 1,103 public schools in Arkansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
624
Teachers
39.0
Students per teacher
16.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
45.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Mountain Home School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Mtn Home High Career Academics1,518 students
- 2Hackler Intermediate School830 students
- 3Pinkston Middle School624 students
- 4Nelson Wilks Herron Elementary552 students
- 5Mountain Home Kindergarten337 students
- 6Guy Berry College and Career Academy53 students
- Enrollment+38.7%
- Teachers+34.5%
- Students per teacher+13.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−32.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory