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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051341001099
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
411 NORTH 20TH ST, VAN BUREN, AR 72956 · (479) 474-2661 · Crawford County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% 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.
- C-Beats 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
15.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
377 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
21.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
21.7%
AR avg 38.9% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.7% | 21.7% |
| 2023-24 | 24.6% | 25.9% |
% 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
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (22.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 437 | 86.3% | 22.1% |
| OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RUSSELLVILLE | 503 | 86.1% | 28.8% |
| CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RUSSELLVILLE | 399 | 92.5% | 27.2% |
| WEST MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BATESVILLE | 599 | 81.6% | 29.8% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 582 | 80.6% | 33.3% |
| MONITOR ELEMENTARY SPRINGDALE | 586 | 82.8% | 29.0% |
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 KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Crawford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #372 of 461 | #10 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #379 of 465 ▼ 45 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #375 of 465 ▼ 16 | #10 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #229 of 531 | #6 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #170 of 480 | #1 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #54 of 480 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.3% | #175 of 513 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #71 of 311 | #1 of 6 |
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
437
+19 (+5%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 361
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 437 | 28.5 | 15.3:1 | 86% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 85% (376) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 27.1 | 16.4:1 | 81% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 78% (324) |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 32.4 | 17.3:1 | 51% (287) |
| 2015-16 | 555 | 33 | 16.8:1 | 86% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 269 | 16 | 16.8:1 | 74% (198) |
| 2000-01 | 250 | 15 | 16.7:1 | 56% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 361 | 17 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in VAN BUREN, Arkansas. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 437 students.
The VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 11 schools and 5,703 students.
The student body at KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group. White students lead at 41%. Next come 39% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 81% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
The school lists 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. It is about the same as the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. A total of 377 students, or 86%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Crawford County, the average is 65%.
On the allk12 Grade, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 27.8%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 22.1%.
In the wider Crawford County area, the median household earns about $64,132 a year, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Crawford County, 23 public schools serve about 10,496 students.
About 0.5 miles separate KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL. The five-mile area around KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 22.1% compares with 36.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Mid-size: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 418 to 437, a 5% increase.
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Crawford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,139
Census ACS
Median income
$64,132
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
10,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 713 students
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
Other schools in VAN BUREN
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 713 students
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
Other King Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named King Elementary. KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 16.
- King ElementaryStockton, CA · 942 students
- King ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 598 students
- King ElementaryFresno, CA · 566 students
- King Elementary SchoolDorchester, MA · 464 students
- King Elementary SchoolLancaster, PA · 413 students
Nearby schools
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 557
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 466
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 437
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,232
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMY1.5 mi · 468
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 441
Frequently asked questions
About KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 437 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
How diverse is KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 41% White, 39% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Who oversees KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT in Crawford County.
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