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Alumni: what's one memory from ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
510
Elementary
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051266001021
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 NORTH WEST END AVE, SPRINGDALE, AR 72765 · (479) 750-8859 · Washington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
19.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
453 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
19.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
18.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.0% | 18.1% |
| 2023-24 | 12.3% | 14.9% |
% 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
15.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (15.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 510 | 88.8% | 15.6% |
| BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 543 | 92.4% | 18.3% |
| OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 481 | 82.3% | 38.3% |
| LINDA CHILDERS KNAPP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 607 | 89.0% | 21.5% |
| GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 676 | 87.9% | 22.2% |
| PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 517 | 95.4% | 14.2% |
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 ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #420 of 461 | #32 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #405 of 465 ▲ 8 | #32 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #398 of 465 ▲ 44 | #32 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #142 of 531 | #19 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #441 of 480 | #31 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.7% | #264 of 480 | #27 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.8% | #166 of 513 | #6 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #105 of 311 | #6 of 20 |
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
510
+30 (+6%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 510 | 26.7 | 19.1:1 | 89% (453) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 28.7 | 16.8:1 | 97% (466) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 29.8 | 18.3:1 | 88% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 480 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 89% (426) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 32.7 | 19.3:1 | 60% (378) |
| 2015-16 | 622 | 32 | 19.4:1 | 90% (558) |
| 2010-11 | 583 | 36 | 16.2:1 | 88% (514) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 28 | 19.4:1 | 59% (320) |
| 1990-91 | 608 | 29 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Among the schools in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, is ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 510 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Arkansas) has about 418 students.
The SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 29 schools and 22,685 students.
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 74% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 15% White, 5% Pacific Islander, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Washington County's population at about 19%. By the diversity index, ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 43%.
The teaching staff at ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 19.1:1. That ratio is over the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 89%. Public schools in Washington County average 58%.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 11.2 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (15.6% versus 26.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Arkansas.
Across Washington County, median household income is about $70,639, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 76 public schools in Washington County.
SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL is located about 0.5 miles from ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as City: Small.
The student count in 2024-25 was 510, 6% above the 480 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 16.0:1 to 19.1:1.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Other schools in SPRINGDALE
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Nearby schools
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,207
- WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 498
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 852
- RESPONSIVE ED SOLUTIONS PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF SPRINGDALE0.9 mi · 102
- LISA ACADEMY SPRINGDALE1.1 mi · 450
- SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 694
Frequently asked questions
About ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 510 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 19.1:1 students per teacher at ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 15% White, 74% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Washington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.