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Enrollment
330
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900001188
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6501 W 32ND STREET, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72204 · (501) 447-3600 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL330 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
15.0:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
327 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
9.5%
AR avg 34.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
7.6%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.5% | 7.6% |
| 2023-24 | 8.9% | 7.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (8.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 330 | 99.1% | 8.2% |
| REED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUMAS | 368 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER LITTLE ROCK | 273 | 98.9% | N/A |
| LAKESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE VILLAGE | 292 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 372 | 99.2% | 18.9% |
| BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLYTHEVILLE | 307 | 100.0% | 6.8% |
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 BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.2% | #455 of 461 | #60 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.6% | #460 of 465 ▼ 5 | #62 of 63 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #459 of 465 ▼ 3 | #59 of 63 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 330 | #359 of 531 | #44 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #133 of 480 | #19 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.4% | #242 of 480 | #44 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.1% | #106 of 513 | #20 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.2% | #57 of 311 | #15 of 42 |
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
330
-59 (-15%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 375
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 330 | 22 | 15.0:1 | 99% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 23 | 17.0:1 | 93% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 403 | 24 | 16.8:1 | 94% (377) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 23 | 16.9:1 | 100% (389) |
| 2017-18 | 441 | 28.5 | 15.5:1 | 20% (87) |
| 2015-16 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 99% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 364 | 22 | 16.6:1 | 91% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | 61% (203) |
| 1990-91 | 375 | 23 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a small elementary school, BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. School enrollment was 330 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 5. The average among elementary schools in Arkansas is roughly 418 students; this school is 21% smaller than that.
The 40 schools of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, including BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, enroll 22,320 students.
By race and ethnicity, BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 71% Black. Other reported shares: 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 5% White. That compares with about 37% Black among all Pulaski County residents. BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 46%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 22 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 15.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, higher than at this school. BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 71% for public schools in Pulaski County.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Arkansas, BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 8.2% compared with a predicted 23.0%.
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Pulaski County, where median household income is about $62,873, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County, which together enroll about 64,124 students.
The school nearest to BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.1 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 15%, from 389 to 330. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.9:1 in 2020-21, and 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 202
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,072
- GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.5 mi · 273
- FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 200
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 62
- LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 330 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.0:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 5% White, 17% Hispanic, 71% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.