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Enrollment
575
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LISA ACADEMY·NCES 050007401624
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
12200 WESTHAVEN DR, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72211 · (501) 476-3309 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL575 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.2:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
422 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
30.1%
AR avg 34.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
19.4%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 | 30.1% | 19.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.1% | 22.4% |
% 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
25.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (25.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 575 | 73.4% | 25.0% |
| LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 654 | 72.3% | 34.0% |
| OWL CREEK SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 619 | 69.6% | 36.2% |
| DAISY BATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 409 | 75.6% | 22.1% |
| WILLIAMS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 340 | 68.5% | 37.7% |
| WARREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WARREN | 412 | 83.7% | 21.0% |
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 LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #350 of 461 | #26 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #396 of 465 ▼ 30 | #36 of 63 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #293 of 465 ▲ 60 | #25 of 63 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 575 | #91 of 531 | #13 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #444 of 480 | #60 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #51 of 480 | #8 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.4% | #261 of 513 | #40 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #297 of 311 | #42 of 42 |
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
575
-72 (-11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 575 | 30 | 19.2:1 | 73% (422) |
| 2023-24 | 603 | 35.1 | 17.2:1 | 75% (450) |
| 2022-23 | 626 | 38.1 | 16.4:1 | 70% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 647 | 37 | 17.5:1 | 69% (444) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 33.7 | 17.4:1 | 39% (226) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. Federal data show 575 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average enrollment is about 418.
The district, LISA ACADEMY, operates 13 schools serving 4,292 students.
Black students account for 47% of enrollment at LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other groups make up 33% Hispanic, 10% White, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 37% of Pulaski County residents are Black. The diversity index for LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 30 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 19.2:1. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average ratio is 16.0:1. Roughly 73% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Pulaski County average a similar 71%.
In Arkansas, LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 25.0% actual against a predicted 32.5%.
For Pulaski County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $62,873 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Pulaski County has 133 public schools.
TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.9 miles from LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 6th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net loss of 72 students, or 11%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.5:1 in 2020-21, and 19.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LISA ACADEMY
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
- LISA ACADEMY SPRINGDALEElementary · 450 students
- LISA ACADEMY WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 430 students
- LISA ACADEMY WEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 394 students
- LISA ACADEMY ROGERS-BENTONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 393 students
- LISA ACADEMY FAYETTEVILLEElementary · 377 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 328
- LISA ACADEMY WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 430
- LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL1.3 mi · 236
- BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 407
- MCDERMOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 254
- FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 485
Frequently asked questions
About LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 575 students in grades KG-05.
Is LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1.
What is the student diversity at LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 33% Hispanic, 47% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LISA ACADEMY in Pulaski County.
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