LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

As a substantial primary school in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas, LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL works with 721 students from grades 2 through 4, operated by LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Garland). By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits 72% bigger than that benchmark.

LAKESIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Garland) comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,538 students; LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Garland County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Garland County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Garland County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,181 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Garland County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,391 students), LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LAKESIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.1%.

LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 787 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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