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Enrollment
555
Elementary
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050861000573
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
240 WOLF ST, PEARCY, AR 71964 · (501) 767-8725 · Garland County
GRADES 02–03ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
16.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
411 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 264 | 48% |
| Grade 3 | 286 | 52% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→LAKE HAMILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→LAKE HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL→LAKE HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
33.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -10.8pp since 2023
Math
53.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.1% | 53.2% |
| 2023-24 | 43.9% | 57.1% |
% 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
44.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 555 | 74.1% | 44.4% |
| LAKE HAMILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PEARCY | 566 | 70.5% | 47.9% |
| LAKE HAMILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL PEARCY | 619 | 70.0% | N/A |
| HUNTSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HUNTSVILLE | 479 | 73.5% | 28.8% |
| JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 459 | 76.3% | 32.1% |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 466 | 75.3% | 27.9% |
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 LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Garland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #128 of 461 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #95 of 465 ▼ 39 | #3 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #260 of 465 ▼ 137 | #7 of 11 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 555 | #108 of 531 | #6 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #278 of 480 | #6 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #252 of 480 | #10 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.1% | #250 of 513 | #8 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.4% | #101 of 311 | #1 of 8 |
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
555
-88 (-14%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 937
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 555 | 33.3 | 16.6:1 | 74% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 578 | 34.1 | 17.0:1 | 72% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 36.5 | 15.8:1 | 69% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 643 | 37 | 17.4:1 | 63% (408) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 41.5 | 16.6:1 | 29% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 662 | 39 | 17.0:1 | 63% (415) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 58% (343) |
| 2000-01 | 821 | 36 | 22.8:1 | 44% (362) |
| 1990-91 | 937 | 46 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in PEARCY, Arkansas. The school serves 555 students in grades 2 through 3 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Arkansas is roughly 418 students; this school is 33% larger than that.
Enrollment across the 6 schools in LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 3,945 students.
White students account for 73% of enrollment at LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Black. The county population is about 83% White. LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 44%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 33.3 full-time equivalents, or about 16.6 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Arkansas have a similar average ratio of 16.0:1. About 74% of students, or 411, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 72% average for public schools in Garland County.
allk12 grades LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 44.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 32.3%.
Garland County has these Census figures: median household income is about $57,181, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The public schools of Garland County number 28 and enroll about 14,391.
The next-closest public school is LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. In all, 5 other public schools sit within five miles of LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Small, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 643 students in 2020-21 and 555 in 2024-25, a 14% decrease.
The LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Garland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
100,035
Census ACS
Median income
$57,181
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
14,391 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 936 students
- LAKE HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 636 students
- LAKE HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 633 students
- LAKE HAMILTON PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- LAKE HAMILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 566 students
Other schools in PEARCY
- LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 936 students
- LAKE HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 636 students
- LAKE HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 633 students
- LAKE HAMILTON PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- LAKE HAMILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 566 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 936
- LAKE HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 636
- LAKE HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 633
- LAKE HAMILTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 566
- LAKE HAMILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 619
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOL8.4 mi · 759
Frequently asked questions
About LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 555 students in grades 02-03.
Is LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 02-03.
How many teachers does LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 73% White, 16% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
LAKE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LAKE HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.