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If you could change one rule at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
582
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000363
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2400 S DALLAS ST, FORT SMITH, AR 72901 · (479) 783-3214 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL582 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
18.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
469 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
70%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
36.8%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.1pp since 2023
Math
31.1%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.8% | 31.1% |
| 2023-24 | 38.9% | 31.2% |
% 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
33.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (33.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 582 | 80.6% | 33.3% |
| WEST MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BATESVILLE | 599 | 81.6% | 29.8% |
| SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 604 | 74.8% | 31.6% |
| DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL DARDANELLE | 615 | 76.9% | 30.7% |
| HILL FARM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRYANT | 562 | 73.7% | 37.5% |
| KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 437 | 86.3% | 22.1% |
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 FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #263 of 461 | #12 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #297 of 465 ▼ 24 | #14 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #219 of 465 ▼ 31 | #12 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 582 | #86 of 531 | #3 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #374 of 480 | #9 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.1% | #14 of 480 | #4 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.6% | #196 of 513 | #11 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.5% | #301 of 311 | #18 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
582
+44 (+8%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 582 | 32.4 | 18.0:1 | 81% (469) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 26.6 | 18.5:1 | 78% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 23.1 | 19.8:1 | 77% (354) |
| 2020-21 | 538 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 78% (417) |
| 2017-18 | 591 | 35.6 | 16.6:1 | 34% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 647 | 37 | 17.5:1 | 82% (533) |
| 2010-11 | 669 | 39 | 17.1:1 | 80% (533) |
| 2000-01 | 573 | 30 | 19.1:1 | 63% (361) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 16 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school found in FORT SMITH, Arkansas. It has an enrollment of 582 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 418 students for elementary schools in Arkansas.
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 27 schools and 14,164 students.
The largest group at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White students, at 41%. The remaining students are 31% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, and 7% Black. Census figures show Sebastian County is about 68% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
Staffing at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 32.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.0:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas have an average ratio of 16.0:1. On the income side, 81% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Sebastian County average 65%.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.3% and a predicted 29.9%.
Looking at the county, Sebastian County, the median household earns about $57,790 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Sebastian County has 44 public schools with about 20,239 students, including FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Federal data place FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 538 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 582 by 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other Fairview Elementary schools
62 other US public schools in 28 states are named Fairview Elementary. FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 13th largest of the 63.
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLROGERS, AR · 580 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCAMDEN, AR · 523 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTEXARKANA, AR · 246 students
- Fairview ElementaryModesto, CA · 786 students
- Fairview ElementaryFairfax Station, VA · 751 students
Nearby schools
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 801
- BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 286
- RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 235
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 2,053
- CARNALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 172
- Arkoma Middle School1.4 mi · 68
Frequently asked questions
About FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 582 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 18.0:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 41% White, 31% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 19% Two or more.
Who oversees FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT in Sebastian County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.