IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

As a close-knit elementary school in CAMDEN, Arkansas, IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL works with 286 students from grades 4 through 5, part of CAMDEN FAIRVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 32% below typical.

CAMDEN FAIRVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,995 students; IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Ouachita County's rate of about 86%.

With demographic context factored in, IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 15.8%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ouachita County put the typical household earns roughly $49,268 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Ouachita County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,268 students), of which IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CAMDEN FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. IVORY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 286).

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