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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 244 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS·NCES 050042301657
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF
PINE BLUFF AR 71603, PINE BLUFF, AR 71603 · (870) 395-7401 · Jefferson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
375 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 24% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 55% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
29.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -8.1pp since 2023
Math
38.9%
AR avg 38.9% . -16.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.2% | 38.9% |
| 2023-24 | 37.3% | 55.2% |
% 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
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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 FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF this school | 469 | 80.0% | 36.0% |
| COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 426 | 79.8% | 15.2% |
| ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 609 | 78.3% | 25.1% |
| ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 672 | 84.2% | 30.3% |
| FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARY JONESBORO | 394 | 82.0% | N/A |
| FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA JONESBORO | 440 | 86.6% | 19.0% |
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 FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #230 of 461 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #227 of 465 ▼ 159 | #3 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #299 of 465 ▼ 98 | #6 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #189 of 531 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #241 of 480 | #8 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.1% | #454 of 480 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #199 of 513 | #5 of 12 |
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
469
+153 (+48%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 469 | 28.9 | 16.2:1 | 80% (375) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 27.4 | 16.7:1 | 79% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 373 | 20.5 | 18.2:1 | 76% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 18 | 17.6:1 | 85% (269) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF.
About FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF
This page covers FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF, a medium-sized elementary school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas. Enrolled students number 469 students, in kindergarten through 5.
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS operates 7 schools. Combined enrollment is 1,350 students.
Black students are the large majority at FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF, with 95% of enrollment. In Jefferson County overall, about 57% of residents are Black. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF has a diversity index of 9%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 16.2:1. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average ratio is about 16.0:1. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF reports 80% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Jefferson County, the average is about the same, 77%.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is 30.1%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 36.0%.
Jefferson County has these Census figures: median household income is about $51,096, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is among the 28 public schools in Jefferson County.
The school nearest to FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is FORREST PARK GREENVILLE PRESCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Within five miles of FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF ranks 2nd of 7 on average proficiency.
Federal data place FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area. FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is a public charter school.
Federal records list enrollment at FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF as 316 in 2020-21 and 469 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.2:1.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,802
Census ACS
Median income
$51,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
8,520 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY DOWNTOWN PINE BLUFFElementary · 245 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL PINE BLUFFMiddle · 236 students
- FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARYElementary · 200 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST PINE BLUFFHigh · 76 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 62 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY NORTH LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARYElementary · 62 students
Other schools in PINE BLUFF
- PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 688 students
- PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 593 students
- COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 426 students
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 367 students
Nearby schools
- FORREST PARK GREENVILLE PRESCHOOL0.4 mi · 204
- SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 345
- EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 199
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 399
- PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 688
- WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFFHow large is FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF?
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF enrolls approximately 469 students in grades KG-05.
Is FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF an elementary, middle, or high school?
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF have?
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
How diverse is FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF?
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF reports a student body of 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 95% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF public or private?
FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMIES ARKANSAS.
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