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How has LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
504
Elementary
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050789001187
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL
120 CHESTNUT, HOT SPRINGS, AR 71913 · (501) 620-7821 · Garland County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL504 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- DTest 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
18.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
504 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 | 54 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 49% larger than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL→HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMY→HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
18.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
17.5%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 17.5% |
| 2023-24 | 13.4% | 20.3% |
% 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
17.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (17.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 504 | 100.0% | 17.1% |
| KINDERGARTEN CENTER JONESBORO | 485 | 100.0% | N/A |
| MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL JONESBORO | 499 | 100.0% | 15.8% |
| OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 452 | 100.0% | 23.6% |
| MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 647 | 99.8% | 18.2% |
| PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUTTGART | 641 | 100.0% | 23.1% |
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 LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Garland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #413 of 461 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.5% | #410 of 465 ▼ 29 | #11 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #406 of 465 ▲ 30 | #9 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 504 | #148 of 531 | #7 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #409 of 480 | #12 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.0% | #16 of 480 | #4 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #44 of 513 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.4% | #43 of 138 | N/A |
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
504
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 421
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 504 | 27.1 | 18.6:1 | 100% (504) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 30.1 | 17.3:1 | 100% (520) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 34.9 | 15.9:1 | 100% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 510 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 100% (510) |
| 2017-18 | 433 | 25.9 | 16.7:1 | 31% (136) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 97% (400) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 23 | 16.7:1 | 96% (368) |
| 2000-01 | 347 | 25 | 13.9:1 | 77% (266) |
| 1990-91 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL.
About LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of the public schools in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 504 students across pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 21% larger than the 418 average for elementary schools in Arkansas.
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is part of a district of 6 schools: HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3,576 students.
Black students are the largest group at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL, with 44% of enrollment. Next come 22% Hispanic, 20% White, and 12% multiracial. The county population is about 8% Black. LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL has a diversity index of 70%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 18.6:1. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. The lunch program counts 100% of students at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Garland County report 72%.
The allk12 Grade for LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is D. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 12% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL would score about 22.7%. It scores 17.1%, 5.5 points below that figure.
Across Garland County, 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.
Nearby, OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOL is about 1.9 miles away. LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL at 9th of 9.
The NCES locale for LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 510 in 2020-21 and 504 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 18.6:1, from 16.4:1.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL covering things like school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMYMiddle · 803 students
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 759 students
- MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 647 students
- OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 452 students
- PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
Other schools in HOT SPRINGS
- LAKESIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,107 students
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMYMiddle · 803 students
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 759 students
- LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 721 students
- MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 647 students
- LAKESIDE PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 583 students
Nearby schools
- OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOL1.9 mi · 452
- PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOL2.1 mi · 411
- MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL2.2 mi · 647
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMY2.5 mi · 803
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 759
- CUTTER-MORNING STAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 357
Frequently asked questions
About LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL?
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 504 students in grades PK-06.
Is LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.6:1 students per teacher at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL.
How diverse is LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL?
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 20% White, 22% Hispanic, 44% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL public or private?
LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.