CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As an average-sized K-5 school in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas, CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 357 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by CUTTER MORNING STAR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by CUTTER MORNING STAR SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 688 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Garland County shows median household earnings sit near $57,181, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Garland County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,391 students), of which CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CUTTER-MORNING STAR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 366 students in 2018 to 357 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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