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

Southwest Middle School

Searcy School District · White County · Wilbur D Mills Education Service Cooperative · Grades 3-6
Enrollment
884
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
62.8%
2025-26 · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
3.8%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
17.2%
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
ELA45.6%43.5%+2.1pp12
Reading44.7%45.9%-1.2pp12
Math54.3%51.6%+2.7pp12
Science50.9%47.2%+3.7pp12

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.

Cabot Middle School SouthCabot School District
57% econ. dis.
700 students
4% EL
16% SPED
Pine Haven Elementary SchoolBauxite School District
53% econ. dis.
763 students
5% EL
18% SPED
Heber Springs Elementary SchoolHeber Springs School District
67% econ. dis.
625 students
2% EL
17% SPED
Visual and Performing Arts MagnetJonesboro School District
67% econ. dis.
730 students
7% EL
17% SPED
Southside Elementary SchoolCabot School District
50% econ. dis.
554 students
3% EL
17% SPED
Eastside Elementary SchoolCabot School District
48% econ. dis.
532 students
3% EL
16% SPED
Alma Intermediate SchoolAlma School District
64% econ. dis.
676 students
1% EL
17% SPED
Prairie Grove Elementary SchoolPrairie Grove School District
53% econ. dis.
630 students
5% EL
15% SPED
Peake Elementary SchoolArkadelphia School District
74% econ. dis.
654 students
5% EL
19% SPED
71% econ. dis.
673 students
6% EL
15% SPED
Sheridan Intermediate SchoolSheridan School District
52% econ. dis.
560 students
1% EL
18% SPED
Dewitt Elementary SchoolDewitt School District
67% econ. dis.
500 students
3% EL
19% SPED