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EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% 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 24 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in ROGERS, Arkansas, EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community, operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 505 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 21% larger than that benchmark.
EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 23 schools operated by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 15,688 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 41% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Benton County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 61.6%, a residual of +23.8 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,506, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students).
Nearest neighbor: ROGERS NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Over the past 7-year window. EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 505).
On the community side, members of the EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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