KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a minimally staffed elementary campus in KINGSTON, Arkansas, KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 122 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of JASPER SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in JASPER SCHOOL DISTRICT (884 students total), KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madison County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Madison County) logs that median household earnings sit near $56,798, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Madison County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,501 students), of which KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 144 students in 2018 compared to 122 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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