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What's the biggest difference between GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY and what you expected?
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Enrollment
552
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050690001429
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY
65 GARRETT ROAD, GREENBRIER, AR 72058 · (501) 679-1029 · Faulkner County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A+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
18.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
228 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 120 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY→GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOL→GREENBRIER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
59.2%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
62.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.2% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 55.7% | 58.0% |
% 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
62.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 18 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 GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY's state test result (62.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY this school | 552 | 41.3% | 62.2% |
| SHERIDAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 585 | 42.7% | 41.2% |
| GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENBRIER | 447 | 40.9% | 73.4% |
| SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 523 | 46.5% | N/A |
| PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EL DORADO | 491 | 39.1% | 51.0% |
| POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POTTSVILLE | 605 | 44.3% | 60.5% |
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 GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Faulkner County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #21 of 461 | #3 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #41 of 465 ▲ 8 | #3 of 18 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #32 of 465 ▼ 4 | #4 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #111 of 531 | #2 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #413 of 480 | #17 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.7% | #417 of 480 | #16 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.3% | #462 of 513 | #15 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.3% | #25 of 138 | #1 of 8 |
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
552
+74 (+15%) vs 2020
-26% since 2000-01, when it was 748
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 552 | 29.7 | 18.6:1 | 41% (228) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 26.8 | 16.7:1 | 55% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 523 | 25.2 | 20.8:1 | 45% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 29 | 16.5:1 | 47% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 27.8 | 16.0:1 | 25% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 510 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 45% (232) |
| 2010-11 | 493 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 46% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 748 | 47 | 15.9:1 | 37% (279) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY.
About GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school in GREENBRIER, Arkansas, under GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school counts 552 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 32% bigger than the 418 average for elementary schools in Arkansas.
The district for GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 7 schools and 3,858 students.
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY enrolls a student body that is 92% White. The school is also 5% Hispanic. That is higher than the 79% White share among all Faulkner County residents. By the diversity index, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY comes in at 16%.
The teaching staff at GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 18.6:1. That ratio is over the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 41%. That is lower than the 52% average for public schools in Faulkner County.
allk12 grades GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY an A+. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After accounting for student poverty, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is in the top 10% of Arkansas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 62.2% is 17.7 points above the 44.5% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Faulkner County has these Census figures: median household income is about $67,289, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The public schools of Faulkner County number 37 and enroll about 18,977.
The next-closest public school is GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 478 to 552. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 16.5:1 to 18.6:1.
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Faulkner County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,717
Census ACS
Median income
$67,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,977 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
- GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 583 students
- GREENBRIER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 569 students
- GREENBRIER EASTSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 481 students
- GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
- GREENBRIER WOOSTER ELEMENTARYElementary · 408 students
Other schools in GREENBRIER
- GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
- GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 583 students
- GREENBRIER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 569 students
- GREENBRIER EASTSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 481 students
- GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
- GREENBRIER WOOSTER ELEMENTARYElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 818
- GREENBRIER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 569
- GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 583
- GREENBRIER EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 481
- GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 447
- GREENBRIER WOOSTER ELEMENTARY3.2 mi · 408
Frequently asked questions
About GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARYHow large is GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY?
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 552 students in grades PK-05.
Is GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is approximately 18.6:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY?
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 92% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY?
GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is overseen by GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT in Faulkner County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.