Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000614
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1115 W 16TH STREET, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72202 · (501) 447-4900 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
168 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
54.8%
AR avg 34.9% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
48.2%
AR avg 38.9% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.8% | 48.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.6% | 38.9% |
% 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
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 291 | 57.7% | 43.8% |
| PINE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAUMELLE | 371 | 54.7% | 29.8% |
| OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 408 | 57.1% | 30.3% |
| MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 428 | 62.9% | 23.5% |
| NETTLETON STEAM INTERMEDIATE JONESBORO | 313 | 67.4% | 26.1% |
| NETTLETON STEAM ELEMENTARY JONESBORO | 206 | 65.5% | N/A |
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 GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #136 of 461 | #10 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #140 of 465 ▲ 63 | #9 of 63 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #52 of 465 ▲ 51 | #8 of 63 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #406 of 531 | #53 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #108 of 480 | #13 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #205 of 480 | #37 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.7% | #377 of 513 | #51 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #269 of 311 | #39 of 42 |
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
291
+11 (+4%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 333
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 291 | 19.9 | 14.6:1 | 58% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 20.1 | 14.9:1 | 61% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 284 | 17.9 | 15.9:1 | 60% (169) |
| 2020-21 | 280 | 20 | 14.0:1 | 58% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 305 | 21.2 | 14.4:1 | 23% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 302 | 25 | 12.1:1 | 51% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 306 | 22 | 13.9:1 | 45% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 298 | 14 | 21.3:1 | 42% (124) |
| 1990-91 | 333 | 24 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school based in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 291 students. That is 30% below the average of about 418 students for elementary schools in Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 40 schools and 22,320 students.
More than half of enrollment at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black: 63%. The remaining shares are 28% White and 6% Hispanic. Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 52%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. The school has 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 1.3 students per teacher. In all, 58% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Pulaski County is 71%.
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 67% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 38.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.8%.
Pulaski County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $62,873, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Pulaski County's 133 public schools enroll about 64,124 students and include GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, DUNBAR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 13.8% proficiency; GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 43.8%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 11 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- DUNBAR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 315
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL ONLINE0.2 mi · 292
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF LITTLE ROCK0.2 mi · 78
- DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD0.5 mi · 414
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 1,387
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 2,567
Frequently asked questions
About GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 291 students in grades PK-05.
Is GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 28% White, 6% Hispanic, 63% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.