ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ALPENA, Arkansas, ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary campus, one of the schools within ALPENA SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 219 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

ALPENA SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 402 students. ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (96%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Boone County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Boone County) records that median household earnings sit near $55,143, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,818 students), of which ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ALPENA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALPENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 300 students in 2018 compared to 219 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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