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ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY
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ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier elementary campus in ROGERS, Arkansas, run under ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY. The school serves 523 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.
ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 945 students. ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +6.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Benton County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,506 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY is one of 88 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students).
Nearest neighbor: BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 562 (now 523). The White share of enrollment declined from 75% to 63% over that span.
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