DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL

DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in DARDANELLE, Arkansas, one of the schools within DARDANELLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 615 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 47% above the state mean of about 418.

DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by DARDANELLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 2,116 students overall.

On the student-mix side, DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 77% of students at DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Yell County put median household earnings sit near $55,934, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Yell County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,945 students), of which DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: DARDANELLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 1.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 34% to 30% over that span.

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