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JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in ROGERS, Arkansas, one of the schools within ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 463 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 23 schools in ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT (15,688 students total), JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 23% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Benton County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.6%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,506, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Benton County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), of which JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Over the past 7-year window. JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 463). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 79% to 72%.
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