BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary-level community in BARLING, Arkansas, operated by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 316 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 418.

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

On demographics, BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sebastian County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.2%; this one delivers 31.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sebastian County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,790 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 44 public schools in Sebastian County (combined enrollment of about 20,239 students).

Nearest neighbor: FORT SMITH VIRTUAL ACADEMY, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 316). The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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