JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in VAN BUREN, Arkansas, operated by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 459 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 5,703 students, JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Crawford County's rate of about 65%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Crawford County) reports that median household earnings sit near $64,132, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Crawford County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,496 students), of which JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 459). Class-load math has widened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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