HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of sizable scale in HEBER SPRINGS, Arkansas, overseen by HEBER SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 743 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 78% above the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

HEBER SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,617 students; HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Across the wider county, Cleburne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,798 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cleburne County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,434 students), HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HEBER SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HEBER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 789 students in 2018 compared to 743 in 2025.

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