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Enrollment
716
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050306001684
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5303 BRIGHT ROAD, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712 · (479) 360-7400 · Benton County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL716 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- ABeats 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
20.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
24 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 | 142 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 151 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 139 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 138 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (142) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (138).
Student demographics
28%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
71.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.6pp since 2023
Math
80.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 80.3% |
| 2023-24 | 71.8% | 75.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% 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 17 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (75.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 716 | 3.4% | 75.1% |
| VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 558 | 11.3% | 69.8% |
| ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 583 | 14.9% | 65.3% |
| ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 445 | 14.8% | 75.0% |
| JANIE DARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 433 | 10.9% | 70.1% |
| 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 EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #2 of 461 | #1 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #4 of 465 ▼ 1 | #2 of 39 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #5 of 465 ▼ 2 | #2 of 39 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 716 | #30 of 531 | #4 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.5:1 | #471 of 480 | #44 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.7% | #345 of 480 | #43 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.4% | #513 of 513 | #44 of 44 |
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
716
+18 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
20.5:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 716 | 35 | 20.5:1 | 3% (24) |
| 2023-24 | 664 | 34.4 | 19.3:1 | 4% (26) |
| 2022-23 | 655 | 33 | 19.9:1 | 5% (36) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 37 | 18.9:1 | 5% (37) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school in BENTONVILLE, Arkansas. It covers kindergarten through 4, with a total enrollment of 716 students. Statewide, elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students each.
BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 19,575 students, and its 24 schools include EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
At EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, White students make up 85% of the student body. Other students are 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Benton County residents are about 60% White. The chance that two students picked at random at EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 28%.
Dividing enrollment by its 35 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 20.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, lower than at this school. EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 3% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Benton County average 37%.
allk12 grades EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A+. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 16.5 points (75.1% versus 58.6%), a top-10% result in Arkansas on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Benton County this way: median household income is about $93,506, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 88 public schools in Benton County, with a combined enrollment of about 57,071.
Of nearby public schools, CENTRAL PARK AT MORNING STAR is the closest, at about 1.9 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
The number of students climbed from 698 to 716 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 20.5:1, from 18.9:1.
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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
Nearby schools
- CENTRAL PARK AT MORNING STAR1.9 mi · 604
- J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 718
- WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 671
- BRIGHT FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 697
- JANIE DARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 433
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS ROGERS3.4 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 716 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 20.5:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 85% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EVENING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Benton County.
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