GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus in TEXARKANA, Arkansas, overseen by GENOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 365 students in grades K through 3.

GENOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,213 students. GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Miller County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miller County (around 80%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.2%; actual is 59.4%, +18.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Miller County reports that median household earnings sit near $48,836, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Miller County (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students).

Nearest neighbor: GARY E. COBB MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 405 (now 365).

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