INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, one of the schools within NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 398 students across grades K through 5.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,711 students. INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 36% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Pulaski County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students).

The closest other public school is CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 34%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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