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CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL · LITTLE ROCK, AR
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ATLAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).
English Language Arts
61.4%
State avg 34.9%
District avg 30.1%
County avg 27.2%
+4.5pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
72.7%
State avg 38.9%
District avg 29.8%
County avg 26.2%
+5.7pp since 2023-24
Science
64.9%
State avg 38.4%
District avg 29.8%
County avg 27.7%
+1.8pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 73 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 65 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35, 39, and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points and science scores are up about 2 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 348.6%36.0%7074.2%39.8%7057.2%38.6%70
Grade 461.1%39.3%5475.9%43.2%5468.5%39.5%54
Grade 573.1%36.7%7869.2%37.4%7869.2%37.9%78

2-year history

All grades, all students. CHENAL   Arkansas avg

English Language Arts

34572023-2435612024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.4%30.1%27.2%34.9%
SY 2023-2456.9%28.7%26.9%33.9%

Mathematics

36672023-2439732024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2572.7%29.8%26.2%38.9%
SY 2023-2467.0%29.1%24.7%36.5%

Science

36632023-2438652024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2564.9%29.8%27.7%38.4%
SY 2023-2463.1%28.7%26.2%35.6%

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How to read these scores

What is ATLAS?
ATLAS is the statewide standardized test administered by Arkansas public schools.
What does "% Proficient (Level 3+4)" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 61.4% mean for English Language Arts at CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
It means about 61.4 percent of students tested at CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the ATLAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Arkansas that year was 34.9%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Arkansas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Arkansas Department of Education, Arkansas Teaching, Learning & Assessment System (ATLAS). School-level Post-Appeals summary from the ADE DESE assessment files. Headline metric is the cumulative Level 3 + Level 4 rate (top 2 of 4 ATLAS performance levels).
How often is it updated?
ATLAS is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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