Public school / Middle
Pocahontas Junior High School
Pocahontas, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 051161001438
- District
- Pocahontas School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Pocahontas Junior High School is a public middle school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, run by Pocahontas School District. It enrols 503 students — the 36855th 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
503
Teachers
37.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
52.9%
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 Pocahontas 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.
- 1Alma Spikes Elementary School645 students
- 2Pocahontas Junior High School503 students
- 3M.D. Williams Intermediate School445 students
- 4Pocahontas High School411 students
- Enrollment+11.8%
- Teachers+27.6%
- Students per teacher−3.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−22.1%
Where this sits
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