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BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, overseen by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 543 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 418.
Within SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 29 schools and 22,685 students, BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Pacific Islander, 6% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Washington County's rate of about 58%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -4.8 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Washington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), of which BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: HAAS HALL ACADEMY JONES CENTER, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 17%, going from 655 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 10% to 6%.
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