BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BRYANT, Arkansas, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a big elementary school, one of the schools within BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 785 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 88% bigger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

Within BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 9,827 students, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 21% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Saline County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Saline County (around 47%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 38.4%; actual is 54.6%, +16.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Saline County put median household earnings sit near $79,046, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saline County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,022 students), of which BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 900 (now 785). White enrollment moved from 61% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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