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Enrollment
1,035
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900001528
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
16601 LA MARCHE DRIVE, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72223 · (501) 447-8300 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,035 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
317 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 162 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 157 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 181 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 162 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 186 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 187 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (162) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (187).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
63.4%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
68.7%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.4% | 68.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.9% | 70.2% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% 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 →
Schools most like DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,035 | 30.6% | 65.9% |
| OSAGE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 551 | 27.8% | 46.3% |
| CENTRAL PARK AT MORNING STAR BENTONVILLE | 604 | 17.9% | 61.5% |
| CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 448 | 27.5% | 64.3% |
| BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 407 | 26.0% | 65.4% |
| THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT MARY MAE JONES BENTONVILLE | 567 | 42.5% | 50.6% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #11 of 461 | #3 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #20 of 465 ▼ 7 | #4 of 63 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #16 of 465 ▼ 5 | #3 of 63 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,035 | #2 of 531 | #2 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #448 of 480 | #61 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #97 of 480 | #17 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.6% | #489 of 513 | #67 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.5% | #56 of 138 | #8 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,035
+23 (+2%) vs 2020
+47% since 2010-11, when it was 702
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,035 | 53.6 | 19.3:1 | 31% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 1,020 | 51.5 | 19.8:1 | 28% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 1,004 | 52.3 | 19.2:1 | 23% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 1,012 | 56 | 18.1:1 | 23% (230) |
| 2017-18 | 920 | 50.6 | 18.2:1 | 9% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 892 | 56 | 15.9:1 | 27% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 702 | 42 | 16.7:1 | 23% (161) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a large elementary school, DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. The school reports 1,035 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418 students, so this school is 148% above average.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 22,320 students across 40 schools.
White students are the majority at DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 54% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black, 17% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 53.6 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 19.3:1. That is higher than the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. The school counts 317 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 31%. On average, public schools in Pulaski County report 71%.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Arkansas, DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 65.9% compared with a predicted 48.4%.
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Pulaski County, where the median household income is $62,873, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is PINNACLE VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 1st of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show 1,012 students in 2020-21 and 1,035 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. The ratio was 18.1:1 in 2020-21 and 19.3:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
- PINNACLE VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 807 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- PINNACLE VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 807
- HALL HIGH SCHOOL - WEST SOI0.6 mi · 495
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARK WEST LITTLE ROCK ELEM2.1 mi · 61
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK2.1 mi · 56
- DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY2.8 mi · 218
- JOE T. ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 607
Frequently asked questions
About DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,035 students in grades KG-05.
Is DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 19.3:1 (54 FTE teachers).
How diverse is DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 54% White, 2% Hispanic, 23% Black, 17% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.