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Enrollment
394
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050375001431
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
36 POND STREET, CABOT, AR 72023 · (501) 743-3564 · Lonoke County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
265 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 70%
Community
2
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 | 79 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 36% smaller than its 4th grade class (78).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
37.7%
AR avg 34.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
Math
40.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.7% | 40.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.4% | 40.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 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 CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 394 | 67.3% | 39.0% |
| MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAYFLOWER | 363 | 70.5% | 30.4% |
| BEEBE EARLY CHILDHOOD BEEBE | 439 | 64.5% | N/A |
| LOUISE DURHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MENA | 357 | 68.1% | N/A |
| HOLLY HARSHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MENA | 438 | 65.5% | 38.6% |
| CARLISLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CARLISLE | 380 | 62.1% | 29.0% |
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 CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Lonoke County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #200 of 461 | #8 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #211 of 465 ▼ 22 | #10 of 12 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #214 of 465 ▲ 4 | #9 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #288 of 531 | #7 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #95 of 480 | #6 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #272 of 480 | #6 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.3% | #310 of 513 | #2 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #115 of 311 | #4 of 10 |
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
394
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
+28% since 2000-01, when it was 307
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 394 | 27.3 | 14.4:1 | 67% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 420 | 29.3 | 14.3:1 | 63% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 29.7 | 15.0:1 | 60% (269) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 30 | 13.7:1 | 55% (224) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 32.2 | 14.9:1 | 27% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 54% (224) |
| 2010-11 | 426 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 47% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 307 | 19 | 16.2:1 | 42% (130) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in CABOT, Arkansas, one of the schools in CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment totals 394 students across pre-K through 4.
District-wide, CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT has 17 schools and 10,672 students.
At CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 75% of students are White. Other students are 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 5% Black. That is lower than the 85% White share among all Lonoke County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.
The school had 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. The gap from the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 1.5 students per teacher. The school reported 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 52% average for public schools in Lonoke County is 15 points lower.
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (39.0% versus 34.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Arkansas.
For the population of Lonoke County, median household income comes to about $72,828, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Lonoke County counts 25 public schools with about 13,478 students.
About 0.7 miles separate CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 394, from 410 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Lonoke County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
75,272
Census ACS
Median income
$72,828
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
13,478 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CABOT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,170 students
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH NORTHMiddle · 920 students
- CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTHMiddle · 828 students
- CABOT FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 827 students
- CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTHMiddle · 747 students
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH SOUTHMiddle · 699 students
Other schools in CABOT
- CABOT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,170 students
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH NORTHMiddle · 920 students
- CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTHMiddle · 828 students
- CABOT FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 827 students
- CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTHMiddle · 747 students
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH SOUTHMiddle · 699 students
Other Central Elementary schools
151 other US public schools in 35 states are named Central Elementary. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 70th largest of the 152.
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORREST CITY, AR · 713 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMAGNOLIA, AR · 527 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLVAN BUREN, AR · 466 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLDUMAS, AR · 221 students
- Central Elementary SchoolCarrollton, GA · 991 students
Nearby schools
- EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 550
- CABOT HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 2,170
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 424
- CABOT LEARNING ACADEMY1.1 mi · 28
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH NORTH1.1 mi · 920
- CABOT JUNIOR HIGH SOUTH1.2 mi · 699
Frequently asked questions
About CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 394 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 75% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.