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

Mena Middle School

Mena School District · Polk County · Dequeen Mena Education Service Cooperative · Grades 6-8
Enrollment
439
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
66.3%
2025-26 · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
1.1%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
11.2%
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
ELA46.5%37.1%+9.4pp12
Reading45.1%40.1%+5.0pp12
Math59.6%43.1%+16.5pp12
Science49.4%42.1%+7.3pp12
Algebra100.0%65.3%+34.7pp8

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.

West Junior High SchoolWest Memphis School District
69% econ. dis.
497 students
0% EL
10% SPED
Norphlet Middle SchoolSmackover-Norphlet School District
60% econ. dis.
331 students
1% EL
12% SPED
Southside Junior High SchoolSouthside School District (Independence)
60% econ. dis.
437 students
2% EL
14% SPED
Ahlf Junior High SchoolSearcy School District
62% econ. dis.
601 students
3% EL
12% SPED
Marion Junior High SchoolMarion School District
73% econ. dis.
549 students
2% EL
10% SPED
Lakeside Junior High SchoolLakeside School District (Garland)
54% econ. dis.
592 students
2% EL
11% SPED
Bergman Middle SchoolBergman School District
62% econ. dis.
290 students
0% EL
10% SPED
Monticello Middle SchoolMonticello School District
62% econ. dis.
348 students
3% EL
9% SPED
Paulette Smith Middle SchoolFouke School District
68% econ. dis.
250 students
1% EL
11% 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
Barton Junior High SchoolEl Dorado School District
71% econ. dis.
585 students
4% EL
10% SPED