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

Ruth Barker Middle School

Bentonville School District · Benton County · Northwest Arkansas Education Service Cooperative · Grades 5-6
Enrollment
536
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
33.4%
2025-26 · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
6.9%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
12.1%
2025-26 · MSI
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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 school 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.

Schools like this one

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

SubjectThis school, 2026Peer medianDifferencePeers used
ELA66.0%56.1%+9.9pp12
Reading65.8%57.9%+7.9pp12
Math72.5%65.6%+6.9pp12
Science69.7%62.1%+7.6pp12

12 nearest schools in the same grade-span band, 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.

Fairview Elementary SchoolRogers School District
25% econ. dis.
554 students
9% EL
10% SPED
Jerry "Pop" Williams Elementary SchoolFarmington School District
36% econ. dis.
502 students
6% EL
14% SPED
Elm Tree Elementary SchoolBentonville School District
21% econ. dis.
575 students
5% EL
13% SPED
Central Park at Morning StarBentonville School District
21% econ. dis.
638 students
9% EL
12% SPED
Randall G Lynch Middle SchoolFarmington School District
38% econ. dis.
681 students
7% EL
12% SPED
Mcnair Middle SchoolFayetteville School District
22% econ. dis.
666 students
5% EL
12% SPED
Osage Creek Elementary SchoolBentonville School District
37% econ. dis.
529 students
11% EL
14% SPED
Maumelle Charter ElementaryAcademics Plus Public Charter Schools
36% econ. dis.
618 students
6% EL
14% SPED
Centerton Gamble ElementaryBentonville School District
29% econ. dis.
687 students
8% EL
13% SPED
Creekside Middle SchoolBentonville School District
32% econ. dis.
596 students
5% EL
14% SPED
51% econ. dis.
484 students
9% EL
11% SPED
Apple Glen Elementary SchoolBentonville School District
20% econ. dis.
494 students
8% EL
15% SPED