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Enrollment
359
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000619
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2600 N MCKINLEY, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72207 · (501) 447-5000 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL359 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
16.4:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
128 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
72.9%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
80.6%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.9% | 80.6% |
| 2023-24 | 75.8% | 82.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+28.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (75.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 359 | 35.7% | 75.5% |
| FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 379 | 33.2% | 66.9% |
| JULIA LEE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 328 | 40.5% | 57.8% |
| PERRIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTON | 465 | 35.1% | 47.9% |
| WOODROW CUMMINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 450 | 36.9% | 53.6% |
| BOB FOLSOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FARMINGTON | 438 | 37.0% | 46.6% |
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 JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #1 of 461 | #1 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #3 of 465 ▼ 2 | #1 of 63 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #3 of 465 ▼ 2 | #1 of 63 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 359 | #331 of 531 | #41 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #264 of 480 | #38 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #226 of 480 | #42 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.7% | #478 of 513 | #64 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #248 of 311 | #37 of 42 |
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
359
-18 (-5%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 469
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 359 | 21.9 | 16.4:1 | 36% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 384 | 23 | 16.7:1 | 37% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 413 | 24 | 17.2:1 | 31% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 377 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 28% (106) |
| 2017-18 | 384 | 23.2 | 16.6:1 | 14% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 381 | 27 | 14.1:1 | 29% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 428 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 24% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 21 | 19.3:1 | 32% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 469 | 30 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Among the schools in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 359 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5.
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 40-school district, LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 22,320 students.
White students are 67% of those enrolled at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 21% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Pulaski County's population at about 49%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 16.4:1. That is in line with the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. A total of 128 students, or 36%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Pulaski County report 71%.
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
Test results at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 28.9 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 75.5%, compared with a predicted 46.6%, which ranks in the top 10% in Arkansas.
In Pulaski County, median household income comes to about $62,873, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Pulaski County counts 133 public schools with about 64,124 students.
FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment fell 5% over 4 years, reaching 359 in 2024-25. The ratio was 14.5:1 in 2020-21 and 16.4:1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 72nd largest of the 144.
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolJefferson, GA · 1,011 students
- Jefferson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 886 students
- Jefferson ElementaryLennox, CA · 716 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolCharleston, IL · 698 students
- Jefferson ElementaryGreensboro, NC · 698 students
Nearby schools
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 379
- LITTLE ROCK HALL STEAM MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 305
- WILLIAMS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 340
- FOREST HEIGHTS STEM ACADEMY1.1 mi · 777
- FAIR PARK EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.5 mi · 195
- LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 359 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.4:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 67% White, 4% Hispanic, 21% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.