CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY

CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY operates as a high-enrollment elementary-level community in CENTERTON, Arkansas, overseen by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 725 students spanning grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 73% larger than typical.

CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY is one of 24 schools operated by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 19,575 students overall.

Looking at the student body, CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY lists that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Benton County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Benton County put 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%. CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY is one of 88 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students).

Nearest neighbor: BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARY has ticked up 17%, going from 619 students in 2018 to 725 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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