FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas, FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized primary school, run under WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 523 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

Across the 9 schools in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,511 students total), FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Crittenden County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Crittenden County's rate of about 90%.

After controlling for student poverty, FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.3%; FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 7.3%, -15.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Crittenden County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,358 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Crittenden County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students), of which FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 15.2%.

FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 632 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025.

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