JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit K-5 school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, one of the schools within PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 295 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 418.

PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,586 students. JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 35% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Pulaski County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged up 33%, going from 221 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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