Arkansas ATLAS · three-year trends for every school and district
District

Benton School District

Saline County · Dawson Education Service Cooperative
Enrollment
5,581
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
43.6%
2025-26 · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
5.4%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
12.0%
2025-26 · MSI
Attendance rate
92.7%
2024-25 — most recent published
Graduation rate
94.2%
2024-25 — most recent published
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Spring 2026 figures are Pre-Appeals. ADE has not yet run the appeals and corrections cycle for this release, so these numbers can still change. At this stage ADE's statewide total also runs slightly above the sum of its own districts (between +0.006% and +0.184% depending on the subject), because some test records are not yet attributed to a school. Spring 2024 and Spring 2025, both final releases, reconcile exactly. How we handle this.

Three-year trajectory

Where students landed

The headline number only counts Levels 3 and 4. Movement from Level 1 to Level 2 is real progress that the headline hides, so the full distribution is shown. Above each bar, ▲ is the share ready or exceeding (Levels 3–4); below it, ▼ is the share in need of support or close (Levels 1–2).

Compared with

Every figure below is ADE's own published figure for that grain — not a total we computed by adding up schools.

Position statewide

The whole distribution, with this district marked. We report a quartile band rather than a precise rank: across a field this tight, a rank implies a precision the data does not support.

Districts like this one

Comparing a district only with the state average tells you as much about who enrolls there as about what it does. These are the 12 closest districts by economic disadvantage, size, English-learner share, special-education share and district configuration.

SubjectThis district, 2026Peer medianDifferencePeers used
ELA47.1%47.6%-0.5pp12
Reading48.5%48.4%+0.1pp12
Math56.4%54.1%+2.3pp12
Science53.1%54.2%-1.1pp12
Algebra55.7%45.1%+10.6pp12
Geometry51.3%34.2%+17.1pp12
Biology61.1%49.2%+11.9pp12

12 nearest districts in the same district configuration, by rank-normalized distance over economically-disadvantaged % (MSI), log enrollment (SIS), English-learner % (MSI) and special-education % (MSI), equally weighted. Peer medians are computed, not published by ADE; peers below 30 tested students are excluded and counted above.

14% econ. dis.
19,944 students
5% EL
11% SPED
21% econ. dis.
3,015 students
5% EL
12% SPED
22% econ. dis.
2,665 students
4% EL
12% SPED
36% econ. dis.
3,429 students
5% EL
14% SPED
22% econ. dis.
2,001 students
3% EL
10% SPED
49% econ. dis.
2,997 students
6% EL
13% SPED
42% econ. dis.
14,943 students
27% EL
12% SPED
53% econ. dis.
3,783 students
6% EL
12% SPED
32% econ. dis.
2,087 students
4% EL
15% SPED
6% econ. dis.
1,536 students
19% EL
6% SPED
30% econ. dis.
10,171 students
11% EL
15% SPED
44% econ. dis.
1,511 students
2% EL
12% SPED