Lakeside Middle School, Lake Village AR

Original Research by School Decision on Lakeside Middle School

Lakeside Middle School serves a small student body in grades six through eight as part of the Lakeside School District in Chicot County. The school is located on Highway 82 West in Lake Village, a rural Delta town that serves as the county seat. The town has experienced a steady population decline over recent decades, and the local economy rests on agriculture, aquaculture, and county government. Housing values in the area fall below state and national benchmarks, and the estimated monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home is modest.

The student body at Lakeside Middle is majority Black, with smaller shares of Hispanic, white, and multiracial students. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the high level of economic need in the community. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report.

On state assessments administered through Arkansas’s ATLAS system, Lakeside Middle’s results are low. In sixth-grade math, roughly a quarter of students scored at the proficient level or above. In seventh-grade math, about one in six students reached that bar, and in eighth-grade math, a little over one in five did. English language arts results follow a similar pattern. In sixth grade, about a quarter of students were proficient. In seventh grade, that share fell to roughly one in seven, and in eighth grade it was about one in six. Science results vary a bit by grade, with the lowest proficiency in seventh grade and the highest in eighth grade, where nearly three in ten students met the standard.

When compared to other districts in Chicot County, Lakeside Middle’s overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint. There are only two districts in the county, so this comparison is a narrow one. Chronic absenteeism data was not available for the school.

No information was provided on course access, staffing, or discipline. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes such as curriculum overhauls, referendums, or tax shifts, so that topic is left absent rather than guessed at.

For a parent considering this school, the core takeaway is that Lakeside Middle serves a high-poverty community and its students, on the whole, are testing well below proficiency benchmarks in math, reading, and science. The school’s small size and rural setting may appeal to families who want a close-knit environment, but the academic results are a soft spot that a family would want to discuss directly with the school to understand what supports are in place and what trajectory the school is on. The absence of data on programs, staffing, and discipline limits a fuller picture of the student experience outside of test scores.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 628%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 9 pts below state median

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 6 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 628%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 15 pts below state median

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 14 pts below state median

Science

Grade 619%

School 19% · District 19%

▼ 14 pts below state median

Grade 715%

School 15% · District 15%

▼ 20 pts below state median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 4 pts below state median

This schoolLAKESIDE SCHOOL DIST(CHICOT), 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.