BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment primary school in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 287 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 31% smaller than typical.

Across the 27 schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT (14,164 students total), BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 13% Black, 8% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sebastian County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sebastian County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,790 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Sebastian County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,239 students), of which BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.0%.

BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 19%, going from 353 students in 2018 to 287 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 49% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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