LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY

LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY operates as a cozy K-5 school in LEWISVILLE, Arkansas, operated by LAFAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 244 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 42% leaner than typical.

LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY is one of 2 schools operated by LAFAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 472 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY logs that Black students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 23% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.5%, the actual is 14.0%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lafayette County indicate the typical household earns roughly $41,278 per year, roughly 9% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lafayette County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 808 students), LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LAFAYETTE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, around 5.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAFAYETTE COUNTY ELEMENTARY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 30%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 36% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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