East Junior High School, West Memphis AR

Original Research by School Decision on East Junior High School

East Junior High School in West Memphis, Arkansas, is closed. The school’s status as no longer operating is the defining fact for any parent or resident looking into it today. There is no enrollment to report, no current student body, and no path to enroll a child. The building at 1151 Goodwin Street once served middle-school grades, with state assessment data from the 2022-23 school year available for seventh and eighth graders. Those results show that in math, reading and writing, and science, the share of students reaching proficiency was low. Seventh-grade math proficiency was somewhat higher than eighth-grade math, where a very small portion of students scored at the proficient level. Science results followed a similar pattern, with eighth-grade science posting the lowest proficiency rate of any tested subject and grade. This data is now historical, as the school is no longer in operation. The West Memphis School District continues to serve the community, but East Junior High School itself is not an option for families. No information on student demographics, discipline, course access, staffing, or attendance was available, which is consistent with a closed school that no longer reports such data.

The city of West Memphis is a midsized community directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee. Its economy is built around transportation and logistics, with major interstate, rail, and river access supporting distribution, trucking, and manufacturing. Healthcare and gaming are also significant employers. Recent publicly reported descriptions note that the city’s population has been declining, but local officials have announced substantial public and private investment in new parks, a library innovation center, public safety facilities, and job creation in hospitality, retail, and manufacturing. Housing in the area carries a value below both the state and national medians, with a recent uptick in home prices. The district itself did not have any parent-relevant changes publicly available from recent years, so there is little to report on shifts in leadership, programming, or facilities across the district. For anyone researching East Junior High specifically, the clearest takeaway is that the school is closed, and the academic data from its final years reflects a period when student performance was weak across tested subjects.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 720%

School 20% · District 21%

▼ 16 pts below state median

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 6% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 21 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 719%

School 19% · District 13% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 815%

School 15% · District 8% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median

Science

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 13% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 21 pts below state median

Grade 82%

School 2% · District 11% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median

This schoolWEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.