FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK
Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK is one of the micro-enrollment 9-12 campuss in ROGERS, Arkansas, operated by FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS, with 56 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% smaller than the state mean of about 510.
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK is one of 7 schools operated by FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS, a district that instructs 1,662 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 43% Black, 11% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.6%; this one comes in at 28.2%, -17.4 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, Pulaski County reports that median household income runs about $62,873, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK is one.
Nearest neighbor: FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARK WEST LITTLE ROCK ELEM, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK. On composite proficiency, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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