DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the cozy elementary schools in RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, one of the schools within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 234 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 418.

RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,591 students; DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Pope County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Pope County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.7%, the actual is 23.2%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pope County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,344 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pope County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,311 students), of which DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.9%.

DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 71% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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