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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051266000669
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2700 BUTTERFIELD COACH ROAD, SPRINGDALE, AR 72765 · (479) 750-8740 · Washington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
17.8:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
439 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
34.8%
AR avg 34.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
Math
31.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.8% | 31.3% |
| 2023-24 | 26.4% | 26.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 559 | 78.5% | 28.9% |
| DEQUEEN PRIMARY DE QUEEN | 555 | 79.3% | N/A |
| TURNBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 599 | 81.6% | 35.6% |
| DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DE QUEEN | 558 | 81.9% | 46.2% |
| THURMAN G. SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 483 | 74.5% | 35.4% |
| WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 498 | 86.1% | 19.7% |
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 HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #311 of 461 | #27 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #295 of 465 ▲ 36 | #26 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #238 of 465 ▲ 99 | #22 of 34 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #104 of 531 | #13 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #361 of 480 | #18 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #132 of 480 | #14 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #211 of 513 | #12 of 35 |
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
559
+131 (+31%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 683
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 559 | 31.4 | 17.8:1 | 79% (439) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 35.4 | 14.4:1 | 85% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 523 | 29.4 | 17.8:1 | 78% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 78% (333) |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 29.9 | 18.7:1 | 55% (308) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 78% (468) |
| 2010-11 | 683 | 39 | 17.5:1 | 69% (472) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas. Total enrollment is 559 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Arkansas enroll about 418 students on average.
SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 29 schools. Combined enrollment is 22,685 students.
Hispanic students are 59% of those enrolled at HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other groups make up 21% White, 12% Pacific Islander, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 19% Hispanic among all Washington County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
The school lists 31.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1. Compared with the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas, this school's ratio is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 79% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Washington County is 58%.
On the allk12 Grade, HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 31% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
In Arkansas, HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 28.9% actual against a predicted 30.6%.
For the population of Washington County, median household income comes to about $70,639, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Washington County's 76 public schools enroll about 42,451 students and include HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 28.9% is above the 26.9% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 559 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 428. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.3:1 in 2020-21, and 17.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Other schools in SPRINGDALE
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Nearby schools
- LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 654
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATION0.6 mi · 1,976
- LINDA CHILDERS KNAPP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 607
- J. O. KELLY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 663
- TURNBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 599
- PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 517
Frequently asked questions
About HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
Is HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 21% White, 59% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.