MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 703 NORMANDY, in MARKED TREE, Arkansas, MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary campus that enrolls 309 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under MARKED TREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

Across the 2 schools in MARKED TREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (537 students total), MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 38% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Poinsett County (around 91%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Poinsett County reports that median household earnings sit near $46,707, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Poinsett County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,732 students), of which MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARKED TREE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MARKED TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 16%: 266 students in 2018 compared to 309 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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