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Hot Springs Junior Academy, Hot Springs, AR

Charter schoolCEP schoolHot Springs Junior Academy is a public middle school in Hot Springs, part of Hot Springs School District. It enrolled 803 students in 2024-25, with 14.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
803
Teachers (FTE)
55.0
Students per teacher
14.6
Grades
7 to 9

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.6. The Arkansas average across schools is 12.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.6
District14.6
Arkansas12.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
120 Chestnut, Hot Springs, AR 71913
County
Garland County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
050789000514
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
802
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
80299.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
229Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Middle schools elsewhere in Hot Springs

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.