CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in CONWAY, Arkansas, operated by CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 514 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 10,212 students. CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Faulkner County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 51.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Faulkner County) logs that median household earnings sit near $67,289, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Faulkner County (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students).

The closest other public school is ELLEN SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 514). The White share of enrollment fell from 55% to 45% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.