GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, run under LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 273 students spanning grade pre-K. Enrollment runs roughly 35% below the state mean of about 418.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,320 students; GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is among them.

In terms of who attends, GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER logs that Black students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 21% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pulaski County put median household earnings sit near $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one.

WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER's enrollment has edged up 12% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 273). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 83% to 71% over that span.

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