Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COTTER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050468000193
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
152 LUCILLE, COTTER, AR 72626 · (870) 435-6655 · Baxter County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
374 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 15% smaller than its 6th grade class (48).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→COTTER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within COTTER SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
44.4%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
49.8%
AR avg 38.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.4% | 49.8% |
| 2023-24 | 44.8% | 48.1% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 374 | 100.0% | 47.0% |
| MAYNARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAYNARD | 341 | 99.1% | 26.0% |
| FLIPPIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FLIPPIN | 337 | 100.0% | 38.6% |
| MOUNTAINBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOUNTAINBURG | 338 | 100.0% | 30.1% |
| CROSS COUNTY ELEMENTARY TECH ACADEMY CHERRY VALLEY | 415 | 100.0% | 39.5% |
| MURFREESBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MURFREESBORO | 383 | 99.2% | 39.7% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #106 of 461 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #125 of 465 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #123 of 465 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #308 of 531 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #36 of 480 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.8% | #451 of 480 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #27 of 513 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #150 of 311 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
374
-62 (-14%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 315
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 374 | 28.2 | 13.3:1 | 100% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 30.2 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 397 | 29.6 | 13.4:1 | 100% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 100% (436) |
| 2017-18 | 437 | 32.5 | 13.4:1 | 57% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 30 | 13.9:1 | 100% (416) |
| 2010-11 | 387 | 32 | 12.1:1 | 75% (291) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 26 | 13.4:1 | 56% (194) |
| 1990-91 | 315 | 21 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in COTTER, Arkansas, and is classified as an elementary school. Its 374 students are spread across pre-K through 6.
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of a district of 2 schools: COTTER SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 698 students.
Most students at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White: 95% of enrollment. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 10%.
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.3:1. That ratio is under the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 100% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Baxter County average 52%.
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 88% of Arkansas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 22.7% for AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 47.0%. The 24.4-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Arkansas schools.
Census estimates describe Baxter County this way: median household income is about $48,452, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Baxter County number 11 and enroll about 4,984.
The school nearest to AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is COTTER HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are 4 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 36.5%; AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 47.0%, ranking 1st of 9.
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 436 students in 2020-21 and 374 in 2024-25, a 14% decrease.
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Baxter County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,407
Census ACS
Median income
$48,452
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
4,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- COTTER HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 324
- FLIPPIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 337
- FLIPPIN HIGH SCHOOL4.5 mi · 246
- FLIPPIN MIDDLE SCHOOL4.5 mi · 222
- HACKLER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL7.7 mi · 837
- MOUNTAIN HOME CAREER ACADEMIES7.7 mi · 1,523
Frequently asked questions
About AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 374 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 95% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AMANDA GIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by COTTER SCHOOL DISTRICT in Baxter County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.