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ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
About ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in OZARK, Arkansas, run under OZARK SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 527 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 26% larger than the state mean of about 418.
Across the 4 schools in OZARK SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,673 students total), ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $55,886, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 8 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 3,039 students).
OZARK UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 28.5%.
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