HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY

HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY is one of the average-sized primary schools in BENTON, Arkansas, part of BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 435 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

BRYANT SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,827 students; HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Saline County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Saline County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,046 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Saline County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,022 students), of which HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY is one.

BRYANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. HURRICANE CREEK ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 435). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 66% to 41%.

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