Enrollment
196
Elementary
DISTRICT 379 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051206000969
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
154 SCHOOL STREET, LONDON, AR 72847 · (479) 293-4241 · Pope County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL196 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A-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
13.6:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
130 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 25 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 19% smaller than its 4th grade class (37).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
41.5%
AR avg 34.9% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
55.4%
AR avg 38.9% . +6.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 55.4% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 49.2% |
% 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
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.2%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 196 | 66.3% | 48.5% |
| ARMOREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLYTHEVILLE | 234 | 62.0% | 45.5% |
| EUREKA SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EUREKA SPRINGS | 227 | 72.2% | 51.7% |
| LEPANTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEPANTO | 175 | 73.7% | N/A |
| HARRISON KINDERGARTEN HARRISON | 177 | 67.2% | N/A |
| OZARK UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OZARK | 251 | 62.9% | 39.0% |
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 LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pope County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #93 of 461 | #5 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #82 of 465 ▲ 27 | #4 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #156 of 465 ▼ 40 | #5 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 196 | #484 of 531 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #318 of 513 | #6 of 10 |
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
196
+21 (+12%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 262
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 196 | 14.4 | 13.6:1 | 66% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 181 | 14.2 | 12.8:1 | 79% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 215 | 13.7 | 15.7:1 | 58% (124) |
| 2020-21 | 175 | 15 | 11.7:1 | 66% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 166 | 17.2 | 9.7:1 | 33% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 178 | 15 | 11.9:1 | 61% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 166 | 14 | 11.9:1 | 64% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 207 | 13 | 15.9:1 | 56% (115) |
| 1990-91 | 262 | 15 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in LONDON, Arkansas. Its enrollment is 196 students, spread over pre-K through 4. On average, elementary schools in Arkansas enroll around 418, and this school is 53% below that mark.
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a school in RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 10 schools and 5,591 students.
White students are 74% of those enrolled at LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 15% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 2% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Pope County's population at about 84%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 42, compared with 70 nationally.
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 14.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.6:1. The school's 13.6:1 compares with an average of 16.0:1 for elementary schools in Arkansas. Roughly 66% of students at LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 64% average for public schools in Pope County.
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 81% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 35.2%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 48.5%.
In Pope County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $57,344 a year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Pope County number 25, with about 10,311 students.
RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 6.3 miles from LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A ten-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in rural territory some distance from an urban area (Rural: Distant).
The school grew from 175 students in 2020-21 to 196 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.6:1) than in 2020-21 (11.7:1).
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Pope County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,131
Census ACS
Median income
$57,344
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,311 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 808 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
Other London Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named London Elementary. LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 5.
- London Elementary SchoolLondon, OH · 1,011 students
- London Elementary SchoolCORPUS CHRISTI, TX · 677 students
- London Elementary SchoolLondon, KY · 592 students
- London Elementary SchoolWalnut Cove, NC · 230 students
Nearby schools
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.3 mi · 808
- DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 234
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL7.2 mi · 436
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL7.2 mi · 795
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.3 mi · 542
- DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL7.7 mi · 615
Frequently asked questions
About LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 196 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LONDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pope County.
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