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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DREW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050547000258
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
250 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, MONTICELLO, AR 71655 · (870) 367-6893 · Drew County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
18.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
562 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 80 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 11% smaller than its 4th grade class (110).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within DREW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
38.6%
AR avg 34.9% . +11.1pp since 2023
Math
36.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +10.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.5% | 26.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 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 DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (32.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 562 | 100.0% | 32.1% |
| RIVERCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILSON | 675 | 100.0% | 35.2% |
| STAR CITY JIMMY BROWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STAR CITY | 679 | 99.9% | 27.6% |
| TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TRUMANN | 477 | 100.0% | 16.6% |
| MCGEHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MCGEHEE | 547 | 100.0% | 35.6% |
| RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST MEMPHIS | 462 | 99.8% | 41.2% |
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 DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #273 of 461 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #254 of 465 ▲ 75 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #196 of 465 ▲ 127 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #101 of 531 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #407 of 480 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #201 of 480 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #30 of 513 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.6% | #41 of 138 |
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
562
+40 (+8%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 562 | 30.4 | 18.5:1 | 100% (562) |
| 2023-24 | 489 | 33.4 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 32.1 | 17.8:1 | 100% (573) |
| 2020-21 | 522 | 28 | 18.6:1 | 100% (522) |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 32.2 | 14.9:1 | 55% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 430 | 24 | 17.9:1 | 100% (430) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 80% (318) |
| 2000-01 | 586 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 62% (362) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 29 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In MONTICELLO, Arkansas, part of Drew County, DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. The school enrolls 562 students in pre-K through 4. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students, which makes this school 34% above average.
DREW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 3 schools and 1,262 students.
The share of White students at DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 63%, a majority. Smaller groups are 25% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put Drew County at about 65% White, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.5:1. The school has 30.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1. In all, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 21 points above the 79% average for public schools in Drew County.
On the allk12 Grade, DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 53% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 22.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 32.1%.
The county, Drew County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $42,824 a year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Drew County has 10 public schools.
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are 7 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 7.
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
From 522 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 562 by 2024-25.
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Drew County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
17,046
Census ACS
Median income
$42,824
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
2,874 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DREW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DREW CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 360 students
- DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 340 students
Other schools in MONTICELLO
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 506 students
- MONTICELLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 408 students
- MONTICELLO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 361 students
- DREW CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 360 students
- DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 340 students
- MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 327 students
Nearby schools
- DREW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 340
- DREW CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 360
- MONTICELLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 408
- MONTICELLO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 361
- MONTICELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 327
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 506
Frequently asked questions
About DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 562 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 63% White, 6% Hispanic, 25% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of DREW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.