Enrollment
295
Elementary
DISTRICT 357 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000922
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
21600 HIGHWAY 10, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72223 · (501) 868-2420 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL295 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
135 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
38.4%
AR avg 34.9% . +10.1pp since 2023
Math
32.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.4% | 32.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.3% | 24.9% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 295 | 45.8% | 30.4% |
| PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 266 | 48.1% | 43.0% |
| SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 424 | 46.7% | 42.6% |
| JULIA LEE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 328 | 40.5% | 57.8% |
| JIM STONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 357 | 50.7% | 40.5% |
| BAYOU METO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 416 | 48.6% | 28.7% |
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 JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #291 of 461 | #19 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #282 of 465 ▲ 59 | #18 of 63 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #200 of 465 ▲ 113 | #15 of 63 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 295 | #396 of 531 | #52 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #20 of 480 | #3 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #74 of 480 | #12 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.8% | #446 of 513 | #61 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +33.5% | #11 of 138 | #3 of 14 |
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
295
+65 (+28%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 295 | 23.4 | 12.6:1 | 46% (135) |
| 2023-24 | 305 | 18.8 | 16.3:1 | 44% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 338 | 22.8 | 14.8:1 | 33% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 230 | 15 | 15.3:1 | 27% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 221 | 19.2 | 11.5:1 | 20% (45) |
| 2015-16 | 188 | 15 | 12.5:1 | 73% (137) |
| 2010-11 | 225 | 17 | 13.2:1 | 64% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 399 | 21 | 19.0:1 | 41% (164) |
| 1990-91 | 433 | 21 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school, is located in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 295 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students.
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 26-school district, PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 12,586 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White (47%). Other groups make up 35% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. The White share in Pulaski County as a whole is similar, at about 49%. The chance that two students picked at random at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 64%.
Federal data list 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.6:1. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. The lunch program counts 46% of students at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Pulaski County report 71%.
allk12 grades JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.4%; the prediction is 42.8%.
Across Pulaski County, median household income is about $62,873, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The public schools of Pulaski County number 133 and enroll about 64,124.
The shortest distance from JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Fringe. That means it sits in rural territory close to an urban area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 230 students to 295. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.3:1 to 12.6:1.
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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 PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 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
Nearby schools
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,030
- JOE T. ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 607
- DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY0.4 mi · 218
- PINNACLE VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 807
- HALL HIGH SCHOOL - WEST SOI2.6 mi · 495
- CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 295 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.6:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 47% White, 7% Hispanic, 35% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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