DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a very small elementary campus in DERMOTT, Arkansas, operated by DERMOTT SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 150 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

DERMOTT SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 289 students. DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Chicot County as a whole is about 53% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 18.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Chicot County indicate median household earnings sit near $39,045, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Chicot County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,147 students), DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DERMOTT HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.4%.

DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 30%, going from 215 students in 2018 to 150 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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