GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in PARAGOULD, Arkansas, part of GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 6 schools in GREENE COUNTY TECH SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,550 students total), GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. Compared to Greene County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Greene County's rate of about 73%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -9.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $57,839, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Greene County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,364 students), of which GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 501). Class-load math has loosened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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