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Enrollment
648
Elementary
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050002901275
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
600 HWY 181, GOSNELL, AR 72315 · (870) 532-4003 · Mississippi County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL648 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% 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.
- ABeats 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
15.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
516 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 97 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (97).
Student demographics
60%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
42.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
50.4%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.1% | 50.4% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 53.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.2%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 30% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 648 | 79.6% | 45.5% |
| MALVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MALVERN | 781 | 76.6% | 24.1% |
| ASHDOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASHDOWN | 621 | 72.6% | 31.4% |
| WYNNE PRIMARY SCHOOL WYNNE | 588 | 69.6% | N/A |
| MORRILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL MORRILTON | 432 | 81.9% | N/A |
| WYNNE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL WYNNE | 510 | 71.6% | 38.3% |
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 GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Mississippi County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #119 of 461 | #1 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #117 of 465 ▼ 45 | #1 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #149 of 465 ▼ 29 | #4 of 8 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 648 | #50 of 531 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #145 of 480 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #118 of 480 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.6% | #202 of 513 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #197 of 311 | N/A |
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
648
+47 (+8%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 1,243
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 648 | 42.8 | 15.2:1 | 80% (516) |
| 2023-24 | 582 | 40.9 | 14.2:1 | 77% (449) |
| 2022-23 | 561 | 40.3 | 13.9:1 | 76% (425) |
| 2020-21 | 601 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 75% (453) |
| 2017-18 | 721 | 54.4 | 13.3:1 | 36% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 694 | 49 | 14.2:1 | 76% (526) |
| 2010-11 | 763 | 53 | 14.4:1 | 70% (536) |
| 2000-01 | 729 | 46 | 15.8:1 | 58% (421) |
| 1990-91 | 1,243 | 74 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in GOSNELL, Arkansas, and is classified as an elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 648 students. The school is 55% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Arkansas.
In GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 2 schools enroll a combined 1,215 students.
The student body at GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 55% White. After that, the student body is 28% Black, 8% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Among Mississippi County residents, the White share is about 57%. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Based on 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 15.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas, 16.0:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 80% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 15.3 points (45.5% versus 30.2%), a top-10% result in Arkansas on BeatsExpectations.
Mississippi County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $52,548 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 14% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 17%. GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Mississippi County with 21 other public schools.
GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 8 nearby schools.
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Town: Remote locale category, used for schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 648, up from 601 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 13.4 in 2020-21.
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Mississippi County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,126
Census ACS
Median income
$52,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
6,930 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- GOSNELL HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 567
- KIPP: BLYTHEVILLE COLLEGE PREPARATORY3.1 mi · 292
- BLYTHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL3.5 mi · 369
- BLYTHEVILLE CHICKASAW PREPARATORY ACADEMY (BCPA)3.7 mi · 104
- BLYTHEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.7 mi · 172
- BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.1 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 648 students in grades KG-06.
Is GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1.
How diverse is GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 55% White, 8% Hispanic, 28% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOSNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Mississippi County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.