ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a reasonably sized elementary school in ASHDOWN, Arkansas, overseen by ASHDOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 621 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.

Within ASHDOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,281 students, ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Little River County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,344, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Little River County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,768 students), of which ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ASHDOWN HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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