KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in VAN BUREN, Arkansas, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 437 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 5,703 students, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 39% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 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. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Crawford County put median household income runs about $64,132, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Crawford County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,496 students), of which KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 35.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 561 (now 437). The White share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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