Enrollment
240
Elementary
DISTRICT 217 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050435000163
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1117 EASON RD, CLARENDON, AR 72029 · (870) 747-3383 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL240 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.0:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
240 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 25 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 29 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 14% larger than its 6th grade class (29).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
9.9%
AR avg 34.9% . -5.9pp since 2023
Math
15.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.9% | 15.6% |
| 2023-24 | 15.8% | 13.1% |
% 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
14.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (14.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 240 | 100.0% | 14.3% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEXARKANA | 246 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CAMDEN | 286 | 99.0% | 18.1% |
| C.B. PARTEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRINKLEY | 262 | 100.0% | 18.6% |
| MCDERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 254 | 98.8% | 18.5% |
| COLLEGE HILL PRE-K CENTER TEXARKANA | 170 | 98.2% | 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 CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.3% | #428 of 461 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #423 of 465 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.9% | #457 of 465 ▼ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 240 | #452 of 531 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #3 of 480 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #146 of 480 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #25 of 513 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #162 of 311 |
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
240
-39 (-14%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 351
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 240 | 21.7 | 11.0:1 | 100% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 214 | 21.4 | 10.0:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 259 | 24.3 | 10.7:1 | 100% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 279 | 24 | 11.6:1 | 100% (279) |
| 2017-18 | 276 | 24.7 | 11.2:1 | 51% (141) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 24 | 13.1:1 | 94% (294) |
| 2010-11 | 304 | 22 | 13.8:1 | 88% (268) |
| 2000-01 | 296 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 70% (206) |
| 1990-91 | 351 | 19 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school found in CLARENDON, Arkansas. The school reports 240 students in pre-K through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418 students.
The district, CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 2 schools serving 433 students.
By race and ethnicity, CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 59% Black. The school is also 26% White, 9% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. That is higher than the 40% Black share among all Monroe County residents. By the diversity index, CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 57%.
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 21.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.0:1. That ratio is under the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 100% in 2024-25. That is close to the 100% average for public schools in Monroe County.
The allk12 Grade for CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is D. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 8% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (14.3%) and its predicted rate (22.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools.
Monroe County has these Census figures: median household income is about $43,214, about 13% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 4 public schools in Monroe County.
The closest other public school is CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 14.3% against a local average of 19.5%.
In the federal locale system, CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Rural: Remote, for schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 240 was 14% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 279.
Discussions about CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL may include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
6,589
Census ACS
Median income
$43,214
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
13%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
865 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other Clarendon Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Clarendon Elementary. CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Clarendon Elementary SchoolCLARENDON, TX · 204 students
- Clarendon Elementary SchoolNorth Clarendon, VT · 152 students
Nearby schools
- CLARENDON HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 193
- C.B. PARTEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL14.1 mi · 262
- BRINKLEY HIGH SCHOOL14.2 mi · 170
- HAZEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL17.1 mi · 315
- HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL17.1 mi · 229
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL19.4 mi · 641
Frequently asked questions
About CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 240 students in grades PK-06.
Is CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the student diversity at CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 26% White, 9% Hispanic, 59% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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