Enrollment
287
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000355
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2500 SOUTH WALDRON RD, FORT SMITH, AR 72903 · (479) 478-3161 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL287 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
19.1:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
214 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
40.8%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.8% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 42.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
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 BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 287 | 74.6% | 40.3% |
| BEARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 297 | 78.1% | 30.9% |
| CAVANAUGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 303 | 71.9% | 47.8% |
| RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 235 | 70.6% | 39.1% |
| BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BARLING | 316 | 78.2% | 36.6% |
| CLARKSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CLARKSVILLE | 380 | 76.8% | 30.7% |
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 BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #178 of 461 | #9 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #217 of 465 ▼ 57 | #11 of 23 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #160 of 465 ▼ 21 | #7 of 23 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 287 | #409 of 531 | #19 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #440 of 480 | #17 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.4% | #3 of 480 | #1 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.6% | #243 of 513 | #14 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #108 of 311 | #12 of 18 |
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
287
-35 (-11%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 20.1:1
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 | 287 | 15 | 19.1:1 | 75% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 17.2 | 16.9:1 | 77% (222) |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 17.4 | 16.1:1 | 72% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 322 | 16 | 20.1:1 | 70% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 22.6 | 15.6:1 | 38% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 323 | 20 | 16.1:1 | 71% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 339 | 18 | 18.8:1 | 68% (229) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 18 | 17.8:1 | 39% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 16 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, one of the schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT. The latest federal count shows 287 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418 students, so this school is 31% smaller than average.
FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT has 14,164 students in 27 schools, and BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
At BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the largest share of students is White, at 40%. The school is also 23% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 13% Black, and 8% Asian. That is lower than the 68% White share among all Sebastian County residents. The school's diversity index is 74%, meaning two students picked at random have a 74% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 19.1 students per teacher and 15 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Sebastian County average 65%.
The allk12 Grade for BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 64% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 32.1%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 40.3%.
Within Sebastian County, the median household income is $57,790, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Sebastian County has 43 other public schools.
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles away. The five-mile area around BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 40.3% compares with 35.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment declined 11%, to 287. The number of students per teacher fell from 20.1 to 19.1 over 4 years.
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other Bonneville Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bonneville Elementary. BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 375 students
Nearby schools
- EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 397
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 2,053
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF FORT SMITH1.4 mi · 99
- PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 387
- BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 286
- RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 235
Frequently asked questions
About BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 287 students in grades PK-05.
Is BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1.
What is the student diversity at BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 40% White, 23% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.