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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 313 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051393001136
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4600 WEST 13TH, PINE BLUFF, AR 71603 · (870) 879-3697 · Jefferson County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
340 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 97 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 23% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 27% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
14.0%
AR avg 34.9% . -7.6pp since 2023
Math
13.1%
AR avg 38.9% . -5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.0% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 21.6% | 18.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.2%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (15.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 426 | 79.8% | 15.2% |
| FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF PINE BLUFF | 469 | 80.0% | 36.0% |
| FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARY JONESBORO | 394 | 82.0% | N/A |
| ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 609 | 78.3% | 25.1% |
| FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA JONESBORO | 440 | 86.6% | 19.0% |
| ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 672 | 84.2% | 30.3% |
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 COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #423 of 461 | #7 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #434 of 465 ▼ 36 | #9 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #438 of 465 ▼ 51 | #9 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #244 of 531 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #63 of 480 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #355 of 480 | #5 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.8% | #200 of 513 | #6 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.5% | #26 of 311 | N/A |
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
426
-33 (-7%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 817
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 426 | 30.7 | 13.9:1 | 80% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 32.1 | 14.6:1 | 100% (469) |
| 2022-23 | 384 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 100% (384) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 29 | 15.8:1 | 100% (459) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 40.9 | 15.7:1 | 30% (194) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 79% (439) |
| 2010-11 | 726 | 40 | 18.1:1 | 74% (537) |
| 2000-01 | 774 | 37 | 20.9:1 | 60% (462) |
| 1990-91 | 817 | 42 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a mid-sized elementary school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas. It had 426 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 2 through 5.
WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and 3 other schools, with 1,552 students in total.
Black students account for 86% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 10% White and 3% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 57%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 25%.
For every teacher at COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 13.9 students; the school has 30.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas, 16.0:1, is higher. There are 340 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 80% of enrollment. Public schools in Jefferson County average a similar 77%.
Test results at COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 14.9 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 15.2%, compared with a predicted 30.2%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Arkansas.
In Jefferson County, home to about 64,802 people, the median household earns about $51,096 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Public schools in Jefferson County number 28, with about 8,520 students.
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 1.5 miles from EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 15.2% against a local average of 10.1%.
NCES assigns COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 459 to 426, a 7% decline. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.9:1) than in 2020-21 (15.8:1).
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,802
Census ACS
Median income
$51,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
8,520 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 593 students
- WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 334 students
- EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 199 students
- L. L. OWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCombined
Other schools in PINE BLUFF
- PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 688 students
- PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 593 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFFElementary · 469 students
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 367 students
Other Coleman Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Coleman Elementary. COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- Coleman Elementary SchoolElgin, IL · 641 students
- Coleman Elementary SchoolCLEBURNE, TX · 434 students
- COLEMAN ELEM.ST JOSEPH, MO · 388 students
- Coleman ElementaryColeman, WI · 387 students
- Coleman ElementarySan Rafael, CA · 378 students
Nearby schools
- EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 199
- MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 367
- WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 334
- PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 610
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 593
- FORREST PARK GREENVILLE PRESCHOOL2.4 mi · 204
Frequently asked questions
About COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 426 students in grades 02-05.
Is COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 02-05.
How many teachers does COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 1% Hispanic, 86% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.