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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633001358
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6601 EUPER LN, FORT SMITH, AR 72903 · (479) 452-2601 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
244 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
40.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -11.5pp since 2023
Math
42.7%
AR avg 38.9% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.7% | 42.7% |
| 2023-24 | 52.2% | 49.7% |
% 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
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 397 | 61.5% | 43.3% |
| ELMER H. COOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 459 | 57.1% | 49.1% |
| GENTRY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL GENTRY | 416 | 55.5% | 42.4% |
| GENTRY PRIMARY SCHOOL GENTRY | 347 | 55.3% | N/A |
| ANGIE GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTON | 340 | 66.2% | 27.1% |
| BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 286 | 67.1% | 41.6% |
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 EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #141 of 461 | #6 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #187 of 465 ▼ 82 | #8 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #162 of 465 ▼ 107 | #9 of 23 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #286 of 531 | #10 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #248 of 480 | #4 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.4% | #26 of 480 | #5 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #354 of 513 | #18 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #88 of 311 | #9 of 18 |
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
397
-61 (-13%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 418
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 397 | 24.4 | 16.3:1 | 61% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 401 | 22.5 | 17.8:1 | 58% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 23.5 | 16.6:1 | 58% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 28 | 16.4:1 | 57% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 499 | 31.4 | 15.9:1 | 28% (140) |
| 2015-16 | 470 | 30 | 15.7:1 | 55% (257) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 27 | 16.9:1 | 46% (208) |
| 2000-01 | 361 | 20 | 18.1:1 | 27% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 418 | 24 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Federal records list EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as an elementary school in FORT SMITH, Arkansas. It reported 397 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 27 schools and 14,164 students.
At EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, White students make up the biggest share, 47%. The remaining students are 24% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black, and 4% Asian. Among people living in Sebastian County, the White share is about 68%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 24.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.3:1. That is in line with the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 61%.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the prediction is 37.0% and the result is 43.3%.
The school's county is Sebastian County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $57,790, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sebastian County's 44 public schools enroll about 20,239 students and include EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.9 miles from EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 13%.
Anyone can start a thread about open houses, carpools, and field trips at EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Nearby schools
- BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 287
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 753
- JOHN P. WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 514
- PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 387
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 2,053
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF FORT SMITH2.1 mi · 99
Frequently asked questions
About EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 47% White, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
EUPER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.