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Public school / Middle

Southwest Middle School

Searcy, Arkansas

NCES ID
051221001533
District
Searcy School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Southwest Middle School is a public middle school in Searcy, Arkansas, run by Searcy School District. It enrols 910 students — the 10587th largest of 1,103 public schools in Arkansas.

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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

910students

10587th nationally, tied with 26

Teachers

59.0FTE

10156th nationally, tied with 433

Students per teacher

15.4students

51310th nationally, tied with 952

Free or reduced-price lunch

50.2%percent

50304th nationally, tied with 95

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.

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Within Searcy 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Searcy High School1,166 students
  2. 2Southwest Middle School910 students
  3. 3Ahlf Junior High School682 students
  4. 4Westside Elementary School438 students
  5. 5Mcrae Elementary School422 students
  6. 6Sidney Deener Elem. School385 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Arkansas median across 1,103 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+102.2%
  • Teachers+103.4%
  • Students per teacher+8.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−26.1%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.