ATLAS, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).English Language Arts
41.8%
State avg 34.9%
District avg 35.7%
County avg 34.5%
-4.8pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
54.3%
State avg 38.9%
District avg 51.8%
County avg 48.8%
+7.1pp since 2023-24
Science
46.3%
State avg 38.4%
District avg 41.6%
County avg 39.4%
+5.1pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 54 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 46 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35, 39, and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points and science scores are up about 5 points.
Rank: DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places #112 of 461 Arkansas elementary schools for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
46.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 29% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is ATLAS?
ATLAS is the statewide standardized test administered by Arkansas public schools.
What does "% Proficient (Level 3+4)" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 41.8% mean for English Language Arts at DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
It means about 41.8 percent of students tested at DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the ATLAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Arkansas that year was 34.9%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Arkansas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Arkansas Department of Education, Arkansas Teaching, Learning & Assessment System (ATLAS). School-level Post-Appeals summary from the ADE DESE assessment files. Headline metric is the cumulative Level 3 + Level 4 rate (top 2 of 4 ATLAS performance levels).
How often is it updated?
ATLAS is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
