1
If you had an hour of school board time for MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
647
Elementary
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050789000511
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL
301 OAKLAWN BOULEVARD, HOT SPRINGS, AR 71913 · (501) 623-2661 · Garland County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL647 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
646 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 108 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 21% smaller than its 6th grade class (108).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL→HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMY→HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
17.9%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.6pp since 2023
Math
18.8%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 18 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 down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.9% | 18.8% |
| 2023-24 | 19.5% | 18.8% |
% 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
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 647 | 99.8% | 18.2% |
| PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUTTGART | 641 | 100.0% | 23.1% |
| VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET JONESBORO | 731 | 100.0% | 40.2% |
| KINDERGARTEN CENTER JONESBORO | 485 | 100.0% | N/A |
| LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 504 | 100.0% | 17.1% |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAGNET JONESBORO | 636 | 100.0% | 42.5% |
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 MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Garland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #402 of 461 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #398 of 465 ▼ 4 | #10 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #409 of 465 ▼ 4 | #10 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 647 | #53 of 531 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #221 of 480 | #3 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #8 of 480 | #3 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #81 of 513 | #5 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #125 of 138 | N/A |
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
647
-82 (-11%) vs 2020
+81% since 1990-91, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 647 | 40.6 | 15.9:1 | 100% (646) |
| 2023-24 | 648 | 45.5 | 14.2:1 | 100% (648) |
| 2022-23 | 675 | 45.3 | 14.9:1 | 100% (675) |
| 2020-21 | 729 | 56 | 13.0:1 | 100% (729) |
| 2017-18 | 635 | 47.8 | 13.3:1 | 44% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 89% (552) |
| 2010-11 | 644 | 36 | 17.9:1 | 87% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 612 | 38 | 16.1:1 | 80% (487) |
| 1990-91 | 357 | 23 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL.
About MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school found in HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas. The school enrolls 647 students, from pre-K through 6. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Arkansas) has about 418 students.
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is part of HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 6 schools serve 3,576 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is Black (39%). Smaller groups are 30% White, 18% Hispanic, and 13% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Garland County is roughly 8% Black. MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL has a diversity index of 71%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is 40.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.9:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 16.0:1, a similar figure. About 100% of students, or 646, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Garland County averages 72%, lower than here.
allk12 grades MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.2%; the prediction is 22.7%.
Garland County has these Census figures: median household income is about $57,181, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is among the 28 public schools in Garland County.
The closest public school, PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 33.7%; MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL's is 18.2%, ranking 7th of 8.
Under the NCES locale system, MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is City: Small.
Enrollment was 729 in 2020-21 and 647 in 2024-25, a decrease of 82 students. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.0:1 in 2020-21 to 15.9:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Garland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
100,035
Census ACS
Median income
$57,181
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
14,391 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMYMiddle · 803 students
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 759 students
- LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 452 students
- PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
Other schools in HOT SPRINGS
- LAKESIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,107 students
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMYMiddle · 803 students
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 759 students
- LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 721 students
- LAKESIDE PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 583 students
- LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 581 students
Nearby schools
- PARK MAGNET AN IB PYP WORLD CLASS SCHOOL0.2 mi · 411
- OAKLAWN STEM MAGNET SCHOOL0.6 mi · 452
- HOT SPRINGS WORLD CLASS HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 759
- HOT SPRINGS JUNIOR ACADEMY0.8 mi · 803
- LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL2.2 mi · 504
- LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL4.3 mi · 581
Frequently asked questions
About MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL?
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 647 students in grades PK-06.
Is MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL.
How diverse is MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL?
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 30% White, 18% Hispanic, 39% Black, 0% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL?
MAIN STREET VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is overseen by HOT SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT in Garland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.