BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PARAGOULD, Arkansas, BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school, operated by PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 221 students across grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 418.

PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,166 students. BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest looks like 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 29.1%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Greene County) reports that median household earnings sit near $57,839, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 15 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 7,364 students).

WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.3%.

BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 229 (now 221). Class-load math has widened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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