BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, part of FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 286 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 27 schools and 14,164 students, BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 28% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 7% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sebastian County indicate median household income runs about $57,790, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 44 public schools in Sebastian County (combined enrollment of about 20,239 students).

The closest other public school is PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF FORT SMITH, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 9%, going from 313 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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