LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL

LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas, run under HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 504 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 3,576 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 22% Hispanic, 20% White, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Garland County (around 72%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 16.6%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Across the wider county, Garland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,181 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Garland County (combined enrollment of about 14,391 students).

The closest other public school is OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOL, roughly 1.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL has edged up 16%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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