JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary school in ROGERS, Arkansas, JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 478 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 15,688 students; JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 23% White, 6% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Benton County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 34.9%.

In the surrounding community, Benton County reports that median household income runs about $93,506, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Benton County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GRACE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. JOE MATHIAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 478). Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 65% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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