ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 143 POLK ROAD 96, in MENA, Arkansas, ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized primary school that caters to 321 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within OUACHITA RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

OUACHITA RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 735 students; ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 30.4%; actual is 45.1%, +14.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Polk County) records that median household earnings sit near $49,191, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 11 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 3,063 students).

Nearest neighbor: ACORN HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. ACORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 321).

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