BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary-level community in MOUNT IDA, Arkansas, overseen by MOUNT IDA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 218 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by MOUNT IDA SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 420 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.1%; this one delivers 37.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,906, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 1,138 students).

MOUNT IDA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. BOBBY BARRETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 218).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.