Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 6
Ruth Barker Middle School, Bentonville, AR
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 530
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.6
- Grades
- 5 to 6
This school's ratio is 5.1 higher than the district figure of 14.5. The Arkansas average across schools is 12.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 500 SE 18th Street, Bentonville, AR 72712
- Phone
- (479)696-3300
- District
- Bentonville School District
- County
- Benton County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 050306001139
School meals
- Free lunch
- 114
- Reduced-price lunch
- 44
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 15829.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 24Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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
Other middle schools in Bentonville School District
- Grimsley Junior High School 846 students
- Lincoln Junior High School 723 students
- J. William Fulbright Junior High School 718 students
- Washington Junior High School 709 students
- Bright Field Middle School 697 students
- Creekside Middle School 635 students
- Old High Middle School 618 students
- Ardis Ann Middle School 576 students
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.