IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Set in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a cozy elementary school, run under SCHOLARMADE ACHIEVEMENT PLACE OF ARKANSAS. It teaches 306 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a school of SCHOLARMADE ACHIEVEMENT PLACE OF ARKANSAS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (99%) are Black. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pulaski County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 11.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) records that median household earnings sit near $62,873, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Pulaski County's 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

DUNBAR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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