MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in CONWAY, Arkansas, one of the schools within CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades K through 4.

Within CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 16 schools and 10,212 students, MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% Black, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Faulkner County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Faulkner County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Faulkner County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,289 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Faulkner County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CARL STUART MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARGUERITE VANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 12%, going from 409 students in 2018 to 359 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 46% to 38% over that span.

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