GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of large scale in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, operated by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 676 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 62% larger than typical.

SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 22,685 students; GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Pacific Islander, 11% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.7%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Around the school, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Washington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), of which GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 14% since 2018, when it stood at 591 (now 676). Over the same period, the White share fell from 17% to 11%. Class-load math has widened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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