MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in MABELVALE, Arkansas, run under LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 369 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 40 schools and 22,320 students, MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 9% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 9.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,873, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 13.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 64% to 60%.

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