NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools AR

Best-Resourced Schools in Benton, AR

Compiled from official source data by .

13 public K-12 schools in Benton from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

PlainSchools home → About this data
13
Schools
7,548
Students
45.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Benton has more public-school enrollment than 72% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Benton sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Benton's 13 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Harmony Grove High School and Ringgold Elementary School shows the range hidden by Benton's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 28%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Benton Middle School accounts for 18.1% of all Benton public-school enrollment

That concentration means Benton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Benton school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Benton school enrollment ranges from 288 students (lowest) to 1,363 students (highest), a spread of 1,075 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Benton student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Benton is typically wider than the Benton-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Harmony Grove High School 61
2. Perrin Elementary School 58
3. Harmony Grove Junior High School 54
4. Hurricane Creek Elementary 49
5. Benton High School 47
6. Caldwell Elementary School 47
7. Harmony Grove Middle School 46
8. Salem Elementary School 45
9. Benton Middle School 40
10. Benton Junior High School 40
11. Angie Grant Elementary School 38
12. Westbrook Elementary School 37
13. Ringgold Elementary School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Benton

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Hurricane Creek Elementary 68.6/100
  2. 2 Angie Grant Elementary School 67.9/100
  3. 3 Ringgold Elementary School 61.4/100
  4. 4 Benton High School 46.6/100
  5. 5 Benton Middle School 45.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Benton?

Which Benton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Harmony Grove High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Benton schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Benton, AR? ▼

Benton has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,548 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

Other Cities in Arkansas

Little Rock
76 schools
Springdale
30 schools
Fort Smith
28 schools
Rogers
27 schools
Bentonville
26 schools
Jonesboro
24 schools

Side-by-side: Compare any two schools or districts in Arkansas →

Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.