Enrollment
319
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050612000316
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1500 N SANG, FAYETTEVILLE, AR 72703 · (479) 444-3080 · Washington County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
14.5:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
279 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 21 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 24% larger than its 4th grade class (55).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
24.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -7.9pp since 2023
Math
31.0%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.1% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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%.
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 ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (29.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 319 | 87.5% | 29.3% |
| WARREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WARREN | 412 | 83.7% | 21.0% |
| KENSETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KENSETT | 294 | 90.1% | 26.2% |
| PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 411 | 100.0% | 43.2% |
| SIDNEY DEENER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEARCY | 421 | 78.4% | 29.7% |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER JONESBORO | 315 | 99.0% | N/A |
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 ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #305 of 461 | #25 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #298 of 465 ▼ 34 | #27 of 34 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #351 of 465 ▼ 91 | #27 of 34 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #368 of 531 | #30 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #101 of 480 | #3 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.0% | #1 of 480 | #1 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.5% | #170 of 513 | #8 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.5% | #300 of 311 | #19 of 20 |
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
319
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 319 | 22 | 14.5:1 | 87% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 19 | 16.3:1 | 88% (271) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 19 | 19.4:1 | 82% (302) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 87% (275) |
| 2017-18 | 324 | 25.2 | 12.8:1 | 43% (139) |
| 2015-16 | 341 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 77% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 27 | 16.9:1 | 79% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 373 | 24 | 15.5:1 | 59% (221) |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 24 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in Arkansas, with an address in FAYETTEVILLE. Its grade span covers pre-K through 4, with 319 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average enrollment is about 418.
The district, FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 17 schools serving 10,291 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White, with 32% of students. The remaining shares are 27% Black, 19% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Washington County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 76%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. The school has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 1.4 students per teacher. In all, 87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Washington County is 58%.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.3%) and its predicted rate (27.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools.
Washington County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $70,639, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Washington County's 76 public schools enroll about 42,451 students and include ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, LEVERETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On proficiency, ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is behind the 44.2% nearby average, ranking 8th of 9.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 316 to 319, a small change.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 670 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
Other schools in FAYETTEVILLE
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 670 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
Nearby schools
- LEVERETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 238
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 761
- HOLT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 463
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 765
- AGEE LIERLY LIFE PREPARATION SERVICES SCHOOL1.8 mi · 250
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 293
Frequently asked questions
About ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 319 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.5:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 32% White, 19% Hispanic, 27% Black, 3% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ASBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.