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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 379 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051206001376
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5401 SR 124, RUSSELLVILLE, AR 72801 · (479) 968-4540 · Pope County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
230 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 | 40 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 12% smaller than its 4th grade class (69).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
63.7%
AR avg 34.9% . +8.9pp since 2023
Math
58.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.7% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 55.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 397 | 57.9% | 55.6% |
| NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CABOT | 370 | 60.3% | 34.0% |
| RENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 414 | 54.8% | 44.4% |
| MCRAE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEARCY | 445 | 60.4% | 42.7% |
| CARLISLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CARLISLE | 380 | 62.1% | 29.0% |
| EAST END ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 442 | 49.8% | N/A |
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 CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pope County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #47 of 461 | #3 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #67 of 465 ▼ 1 | #3 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #14 of 465 ▲ 22 | #1 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #287 of 531 | #6 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #111 of 480 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #295 of 480 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.9% | #375 of 513 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #291 of 311 | #6 of 7 |
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
397
+23 (+6%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 397 | 27.1 | 14.6:1 | 58% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 26.7 | 14.8:1 | 62% (247) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 23.8 | 16.9:1 | 50% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 25 | 15.0:1 | 58% (216) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 30.8 | 13.2:1 | 23% (95) |
| 2015-16 | 465 | 35 | 13.3:1 | 49% (226) |
| 2010-11 | 416 | 32 | 13.0:1 | 52% (217) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 31% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 493 | 32 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas. Total enrollment is 397 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 4.
RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools with a combined 5,591 students. CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
The share of White students at CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 79%, a majority. Other students are 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 36%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. The school has 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1. In all, 58% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 93% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 38.3%. CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 55.6%, 17.4 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Pope County show median household income comes to about $57,344, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. The county has 25 public schools and about 10,311 students.
CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 3.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 6%.
The allk12 page for CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Pope County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,131
Census ACS
Median income
$57,344
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,311 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 808 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 808 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
Nearby schools
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 399
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL4.7 mi · 808
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF RUSSELLVILLE4.8 mi · 31
- DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.8 mi · 234
- DOVER HIGH SCHOOL4.9 mi · 375
- DOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL5.1 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-04.
Is CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
How diverse is CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 79% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
CENTER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.