LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in LONOKE, Arkansas, LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a close-knit elementary-level community, run under LONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 311 students across grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 418.

Within LONOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,524 students, LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 22% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lonoke County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Around the school, Lonoke County reports that median household income runs about $72,828, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lonoke County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,478 students), of which LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LONOKE PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LONOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 20%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 26% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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