JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 464 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 29 schools and 22,685 students, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 24% Pacific Islander, 13% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 13.5%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Around the school, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Washington County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is THE EXCEL CENTER - SPRINGDALE, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 21%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 61% across the same window.

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