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Enrollment
628
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050306001462
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2 BLOWING SPRINGS ROAD, BELLA VISTA, AR 72714 · (479) 696-3700 · Benton County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL628 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
19.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
122 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 148 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 28% smaller than its 4th grade class (149).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
60.8%
AR avg 34.9% . +8.2pp since 2023
Math
71.9%
AR avg 38.9% . +8.7pp since 2023
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 and about 72 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.8% | 71.9% |
| 2023-24 | 52.6% | 63.2% |
% 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
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 628 | 19.4% | 62.5% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 580 | 20.3% | 56.2% |
| APPLE GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 497 | 19.5% | 69.5% |
| ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 583 | 14.9% | 65.3% |
| MT. VIEW ELEMENTARY BENTON | 431 | 22.5% | 49.5% |
| ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 445 | 14.8% | 75.0% |
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 COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #18 of 461 | #8 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #14 of 465 ▲ 18 | #6 of 39 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #20 of 465 ▲ 31 | #8 of 39 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 628 | #59 of 531 | #10 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #464 of 480 | #39 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.7% | #305 of 480 | #40 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.4% | #502 of 513 | #35 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #94 of 138 | #8 of 13 |
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
628
-27 (-4%) vs 2020
-11% since 2010-11, when it was 704
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 18.2:1
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 | 628 | 32 | 19.6:1 | 19% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 644 | 33 | 19.5:1 | 23% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 656 | 32 | 20.5:1 | 29% (190) |
| 2020-21 | 655 | 36 | 18.2:1 | 25% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 594 | 38 | 15.6:1 | 15% (89) |
| 2015-16 | 694 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 27% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 704 | 39 | 18.1:1 | 27% (187) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school in BELLA VISTA, Arkansas, (ZIP code 72714). Enrolled students number 628 students, in kindergarten through 4. Enrollment is 50% higher than the average for elementary schools in Arkansas, which is about 418.
The BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 24 schools and 19,575 students.
White students account for 80% of enrollment at COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The remaining students are 13% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Benton County is about 60% White. By the diversity index, COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 35%.
Its teaching staff equals 32 full-time positions, a ratio of 19.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Arkansas average 16.0:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 19%. That is lower than the 37% average for public schools in Benton County.
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 89% of Arkansas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 9.9 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 62.5% actual, 52.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Arkansas.
Census estimates describe Benton County this way: median household income is about $93,506, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Benton County number 88 and enroll about 57,071.
The shortest distance from COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 3.5 miles, to LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th on average proficiency.
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 628 was 4% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 655. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 18.2:1 to 19.6:1.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,579 students
- BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,661 students
- GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARYElementary · 725 students
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 723 students
- J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 718 students
Other Cooper Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 9 states are named Cooper Elementary. COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 12.
- Cooper Elementary SchoolLoganville, GA · 1,520 students
- Cooper ElementaryVacaville, CA · 710 students
- Cooper Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 516 students
- Cooper Elementary SchoolCOOPER, TX · 490 students
- Cooper ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 447 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.5 mi · 723
- SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 381
- THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 404
- R.E. BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 309
- OLD HIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL4.5 mi · 618
- ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 583
Frequently asked questions
About COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 628 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 19.6:1 students per teacher at COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 80% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.