COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary-level community in BRANCH, Arkansas, run under COUNTY LINE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 327 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by COUNTY LINE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 556 students overall.

On demographics, COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Franklin County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 22.6%; COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 46.4%, +23.8 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household income runs about $55,886, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Franklin County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,039 students), COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is COUNTY LINE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COUNTY LINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 24%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.