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Enrollment
501
Elementary
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051308000015
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5203 WEST KINGSHIGHWAY, PARAGOULD, AR 72450 · (870) 215-4430 · Greene County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
17.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
270 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 3 | 1% |
| Grade 1 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 2 | 230 | 46% |
| Grade 3 | 262 | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 3 | 1% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
47.9%
AR avg 34.9% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
50.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +19.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.9% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.9% | 31.2% |
% 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
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 501 | 53.9% | 39.9% |
| GREENBRIER EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY GREENBRIER | 481 | 55.5% | 59.6% |
| GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PARAGOULD | 501 | 53.5% | 40.4% |
| GLEN ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MALVERN | 507 | 55.2% | 36.9% |
| CHARLESTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHARLESTON | 502 | 51.2% | 40.4% |
| MELBOURNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 458 | 51.7% | 53.5% |
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 GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Greene County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #182 of 461 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #116 of 465 ▲ 157 | #1 of 6 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #102 of 465 ▲ 218 | #1 of 6 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #152 of 531 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #344 of 480 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.7% | #398 of 480 | #5 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.9% | #400 of 513 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #222 of 311 | #5 of 7 |
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
501
-39 (-7%) vs 2020
-46% since 2000-01, when it was 924
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 501 | 28.5 | 17.6:1 | 54% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 29.9 | 17.7:1 | 53% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 32.9 | 15.0:1 | 48% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 540 | 39 | 13.8:1 | 61% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 38.2 | 14.4:1 | 30% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 581 | 41 | 14.2:1 | 56% (323) |
| 2010-11 | 953 | 56 | 17.0:1 | 54% (519) |
| 2000-01 | 924 | 59 | 15.7:1 | 49% (454) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in PARAGOULD, Arkansas. It is open to students in kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 501 students.
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 6 schools in GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,550 students in total.
At GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 90% of students are White. The school is also 4% Hispanic and 3% Black. Census estimates put Greene County at about 89% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 19%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas, 16.0:1, is lower. GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 54%. Compared with the 73% average for public schools in Greene County, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 Grade, GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 51% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (39.9% versus 39.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Arkansas.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Greene County show that median household income comes to about $57,839, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and about 14% of people live in poverty. Greene County has 15 public schools with about 7,364 students, including GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 39.9% average proficiency ranks 4th among 7 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 501, compared with 540 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 17.6:1, from 13.8:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Greene County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,432
Census ACS
Median income
$57,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
7,364 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREENE CTY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 521 students
- GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 501 students
Other schools in PARAGOULD
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 881 students
- GREENE CTY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- PARAGOULD PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 521 students
Nearby schools
- GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 521
- GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 501
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 557
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 710
- PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGH2.4 mi · 512
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 881
Frequently asked questions
About GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 90% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.