FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, part of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 485 students in grades pre-K through 5.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,320 students. FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pulaski County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate median household income runs about $62,873, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students).

The closest other public school is TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.7%.

FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 20%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025.

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