BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL

BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in ROGERS, Arkansas, operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 458 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 15,688 students. BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 30% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Benton County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of +12.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Benton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $93,506 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Benton County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), of which BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL has shrank 10%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 36% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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