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Schools in Damascus

Damascus’s public schools

South Side-Bee Branch School District has no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Damascus. Each school below is shown with its own results.

—Not gradedK–12Where will my kid go?1/2schools above Arkansas’s middle

Tests spring 2022, when 100% of students in Arkansas’s tested grades sat them, and the class of 2023’s graduation rate (U.S. Department of Education). How TownRatings grades schools

Reading proficiency
36%
2021–22
Math proficiency
36%
2021–22
Graduate on time
95%
class of 2023
Spent per student
$18.5K
▲ 36% vs AR $13.6K
FY2024
Students per teacher
9.5
AR 12.4 · smaller classes
Schools in town
0
518 students on the public path
In brief

Damascus’s schools, in brief

School by school

1 of Damascus’s 2 district schools with test results score above the middle of Arkansas’s 944 public schools. South Side Elementary School places highest (better than 60%); South Side High School lowest (41%). See the path ↓

Written from the figures on this page. Tests are from 2021–22, graduation from the class of 2023; each school’s own letter uses 2020–21 results.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools in Damascus, with each school’s own grade.

The path, start to finish
PK–6South Side Elementary Schoolin Bee BranchB
7–12South Side High Schoolin Bee BranchC+

Which school depends on your address. To confirm it, ask the South Side-Bee Branch School District.

The district

Spending and class size are shown but don’t count toward the grade. Each district’s own page has every school.

South Side-Bee Branch School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 2 schools · 518 students · 9.5 per teacher (AR 12.4)
$18,520AR $13,585 · FY2024
B−
Test scores · 2021–22

Below the state in reading

Reading36%
State average 39.9% · 323 students tested
Math36%
State average 38.3% · 323 students tested

Damascus vs. its neighbors

Schools grades for the Arkansas towns that share Damascus’s borders.

Schools next door
TownSchoolsMain districts
Damascus—South Side-Bee Branch

Every school in Damascus

2 schools. Each public school’s letter compares its own 2020–21 reading and math results with Arkansas’s other public schools (the newest school-level results we have).

Also serving Damascusin other towns
South Side Elementary School
Elementary · Grades PK–6 · Bee Branch
B
269 students14:1Rate it →
South Side High School
High · Grades 7–12 · Bee Branch
C+
249 students7:1Rate it →

Questions about Damascus’s schools

Are Damascus’s schools good?

There’s no Schools grade for Damascus. South Side-Bee Branch School District has no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Damascus. Each school below is shown with its own results. School by school, 1 of its 2 district schools with test results score above the middle of Arkansas’s public schools on their 2020–21 results.

What school district is Damascus in?

South Side-Bee Branch School District.

Where do Damascus kids go to high school?

South Side High School.

Parents talk

What Damascus families are saying about school.

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School data: state test results (2021–22, with participation) and four-year graduation rates (class of 2023) reported to the U.S. Department of Education (EDFacts via ED Data Express); each school’s own letter uses its 2020–21 results (EDFacts via the Urban Institute); schools and enrollment from NCES (2024–25; private schools 2023–24); spending from the Census Bureau’s school finance survey (FY2024). Stars are from neighbors.