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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
890
Elementary
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051266001127
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3511 SILENT GROVE ROAD, SPRINGDALE, AR 72765 · (479) 750-8775 · Benton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL890 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
17.7:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
510 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 | 332 | 37% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
67%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
44.0%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.6pp since 2023
Math
51.4%
AR avg 38.9% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 44 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 down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 51.4% |
| 2023-24 | 46.6% | 56.3% |
% 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
47.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (47.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 890 | 57.3% | 47.7% |
| SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SILOAM SPRINGS | 699 | 61.5% | 39.9% |
| EAGLE MOUNTAIN MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BATESVILLE | 905 | 58.8% | 36.9% |
| DELBERT PETE & PAT ALLEN ELEMENTARY SILOAM SPRINGS | 671 | 62.7% | N/A |
| ELZA R. TUCKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOWELL | 626 | 53.0% | 45.8% |
| PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALEXANDER | 568 | 58.8% | 40.3% |
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 HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #101 of 461 | #22 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #112 of 465 ▼ 51 | #24 of 39 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #128 of 465 ▼ 34 | #24 of 39 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 890 | #8 of 531 | #1 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #353 of 480 | #28 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #39 of 480 | #4 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.3% | #378 of 513 | #16 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #100 of 138 | #10 of 13 |
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
890
+248 (+39%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 845
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
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 | 890 | 50.3 | 17.7:1 | 57% (510) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 53.5 | 10.1:1 | 93% (502) |
| 2022-23 | 842 | 48.7 | 17.3:1 | 55% (460) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 59% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 36.8 | 23.0:1 | 47% (394) |
| 2015-16 | 900 | 47 | 19.1:1 | 59% (530) |
| 2010-11 | 845 | 44 | 19.2:1 | 51% (430) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas. Its enrollment is 890 students, spread over pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students, which makes this school 113% bigger than average.
SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 22,685 students spread across 29 schools.
The student body at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 46%. The remaining shares are 33% White, 10% Pacific Islander, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Benton County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas average 16.0:1, 1.7 fewer students per teacher than here. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 57% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 37% average among public schools in Benton County.
On the allk12 Grade, HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 77% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
A school with HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 38.5%. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 47.7%, 9.2 points above that line.
For Benton County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $93,506, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 88 public schools and about 57,071 students.
About 1.3 miles separate HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, THURMAN G. SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 25.3%; HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 47.7%, ranking 1st of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 890, compared with 642 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.3:1 to 17.7:1.
This page is set up for the HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 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
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
- GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 723 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
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
- GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 723 students
Other Hunt Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Hunt Elementary. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 8.
- Hunt Elementary SchoolFort Valley, GA · 654 students
- Hunt ElementarySan Bernardino, CA · 533 students
- Hunt Elementary SchoolMURPHY, TX · 491 students
- Hunt Elementary SchoolCUERO, TX · 483 students
- Hunt Elementary SchoolSioux City, IA · 451 students
Nearby schools
- THURMAN G. SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 483
- RESPONSIVE ED SOLUTIONS PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF SPRINGDALE1.8 mi · 102
- ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 510
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 852
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 2,207
- WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 890 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.7:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 46% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Benton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.