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How has JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050804001659
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2395 S L HENRY STREET, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 72301 · (870) 735-4219 · Crittenden County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
17.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
553 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 | 62 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 42% larger than its 6th grade class (57).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
10.6%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
11.7%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.6% | 11.7% |
| 2023-24 | 8.7% | 11.8% |
% 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
9.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (9.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 554 | 99.8% | 9.9% |
| FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST MEMPHIS | 523 | 100.0% | 9.1% |
| J.F. WAHL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HELENA | 539 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY WEST HELENA | 463 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORREST CITY | 713 | 100.0% | N/A |
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD LITTLE ROCK | 414 | 99.3% | 11.3% |
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 JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Crittenden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.9% | #448 of 461 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.7% | #440 of 465 ▼ 5 | #6 of 10 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #452 of 465 ▲ 5 | #9 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #109 of 531 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #338 of 480 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.6% | #477 of 480 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #82 of 513 | #5 of 10 |
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
554
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 554 | 31.6 | 17.5:1 | 100% (553) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 100% (541) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 32 | 17.5:1 | 100% (560) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 100% (530) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas. It reports enrollment of 554 students in pre-K through 6. The school is 33% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Arkansas.
In WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, 9 schools enroll a combined 4,511 students.
By race and ethnicity, JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 98% Black. The school's Black share is 47 points above the 51% share among Crittenden County residents. A diversity index of 5% means there is a 5% chance two randomly chosen students at JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school lists 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A total of 553 students, or 100%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Crittenden County is 90%.
On the allk12 Grade, JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 2% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 9.9% and a predicted 22.7%.
Census data for Crittenden County show median household income comes to about $55,358, about 17% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 16%. The county has 19 public schools and about 8,770 students.
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles from WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 530 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 554. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.5:1.
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Crittenden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,266
Census ACS
Median income
$55,358
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
8,770 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 462 students
- WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 461 students
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 762 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 462 students
Nearby schools
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 511
- MADDUX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 402
- WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 228
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 473
- WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 461
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOL2.4 mi · 897
Frequently asked questions
About JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 554 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 98% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.