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

Southside Junior High School

Southside School District (Independence) · Independence County · Northcentral Arkansas Education Service Cooperative · Grades 7-9
Enrollment
437
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
55.0%
2024-25 — most recent published · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
1.6%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
14.4%
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
ELA37.6%46.4%-8.8pp12
Reading41.0%47.3%-6.3pp12
Math44.1%47.7%-3.6pp12
Science49.5%55.6%-6.1pp12
Algebra26.4%74.8%-48.4pp8
Geometry44.7%73.8%-29.1pp2

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.

Heber Springs Middle SchoolHeber Springs School District
58% econ. dis.
365 students
1% EL
15% SPED
Sheridan Middle SchoolSheridan School District
48% econ. dis.
548 students
1% EL
14% SPED
Bauxite Middle SchoolBauxite School District
49% econ. dis.
426 students
2% EL
13% SPED
Goza Middle SchoolArkadelphia School District
67% econ. dis.
502 students
3% EL
15% SPED
Fountain Lake Middle SchoolFountain Lake School District
65% econ. dis.
391 students
0% EL
15% SPED
Vilonia Junior High SchoolVilonia School District
53% econ. dis.
653 students
2% EL
14% SPED
Mena Middle SchoolMena School District
66% econ. dis.
439 students
1% EL
11% SPED
Ahlf Junior High SchoolSearcy School District
62% econ. dis.
601 students
3% EL
12% SPED
Pinkston Middle SchoolMountain Home School District
54% econ. dis.
576 students
0% EL
15% SPED
Greenbrier Junior High SchoolGreenbrier School District
46% econ. dis.
586 students
1% EL
13% SPED
Booneville Junior High SchoolBooneville School District
65% econ. dis.
288 students
2% EL
15% SPED
Greenwood Junior High SchoolGreenwood School District
39% econ. dis.
611 students
2% EL
14% SPED