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GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY
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Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% 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 17 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY
Set in GREENBRIER, Arkansas, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary-level community, overseen by GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 552 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.
Within GREENBRIER SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 3,858 students, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.
Demographically, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Faulkner County's rate of about 52%.
With demographic context factored in, GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.6%; GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY posts 60.2%, +16.6 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, Faulkner County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,289, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Faulkner County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), of which GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Looking at the recent track record. GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged up 24% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 552). Class-load math has widened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.
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- GREENBRIER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 818 students
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- GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
- GREENBRIER WOOSTER ELEMENTARYElementary · 408 students
- 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