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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050306000165
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
101 NW ELM TREE LANE, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712 · (479) 254-5650 · Benton County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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.
- A-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
20.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
87 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 123 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 147 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 119 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is 13% smaller than its 4th grade class (119).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
67.4%
AR avg 34.9% . +15.9pp since 2023
Math
76.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.4% | 76.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.5% | 66.5% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 583 | 14.9% | 65.3% |
| VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 558 | 11.3% | 69.8% |
| APPLE GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 497 | 19.5% | 69.5% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 580 | 20.3% | 56.2% |
| ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 445 | 14.8% | 75.0% |
| COOPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLA VISTA | 628 | 19.4% | 62.5% |
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 ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #13 of 461 | #6 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.3% | #7 of 465 ▲ 11 | #4 of 39 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #9 of 465 ▲ 53 | #4 of 39 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #84 of 531 | #14 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #465 of 480 | #40 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.0% | #275 of 480 | #36 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.9% | #506 of 513 | #39 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #114 of 311 | #11 of 26 |
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
583
+116 (+25%) vs 2020
-13% since 2000-01, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 583 | 29 | 20.1:1 | 15% (87) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 27 | 19.7:1 | 16% (83) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 17% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 467 | 28 | 16.7:1 | 16% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 708 | 36.4 | 19.4:1 | 8% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 37 | 16.4:1 | 12% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 11% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 35 | 19.1:1 | 13% (85) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school in BENTONVILLE, Arkansas. The grade span is kindergarten through 4, and enrollment is 583 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Arkansas) has about 418 students.
Within BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 24 schools. The district enrolls 19,575 students.
White students make up a majority at ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 76%. Other students are 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 60% White share among all Benton County residents. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 20.1:1, with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has more students per teacher than the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Lunch subsidy eligibility at ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 15%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Benton County is 37%.
The allk12 Grade for ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 91% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +11.0 points: 65.3% actual, 54.3% predicted.
Federal survey data for Benton County show that the median household income is $93,506, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Benton County is home to 88 public schools and about 57,071 public school students.
Nearby, ARDIS ANN MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 59.4% on proficiency, and ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 65.3%.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal data show a 25% enrollment rise, from 467 in 2020-21 to 583 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.7:1 in 2020-21 to 20.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,579 students
- BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,661 students
- GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- CENTERTON GAMBLE ELEMENTARYElementary · 725 students
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 723 students
- J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 718 students
Other schools in BENTONVILLE
- ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS ACADEMY HIGHCombined · 4,575 students
- BENTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,579 students
- BENTONVILLE WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,661 students
- GRIMSLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 723 students
- J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 718 students
Other Elm Tree Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Elm Tree Elementary. ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORONA, NY · 878 students
Nearby schools
- ARDIS ANN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 576
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARY ONLINE1.4 mi · 14
- ISCHOOL VIRTUAL ACADEMY OF ARKANSAS1.4 mi · 16
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS BENTONVILLE1.4 mi · 787
- THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 404
- OLD HIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 618
Frequently asked questions
About ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 583 students in grades KG-04.
Is ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 76% White, 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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