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Enrollment
499
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JONESBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050828000552
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
213 E THOMAS GREEN RD, JONESBORO, AR 72401 · (870) 933-5845 · Craighead County
GRADES 01–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% 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
15.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
499 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 79 | 16% |
This year's 1st grade class (85) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (79).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
9.6%
AR avg 34.9% . -6.1pp since 2023
Math
19.9%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.6% | 19.9% |
| 2023-24 | 15.7% | 19.7% |
% 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
15.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% 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 MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (15.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 499 | 100.0% | 15.8% |
| KINDERGARTEN CENTER JONESBORO | 485 | 100.0% | N/A |
| LEADERSHIP MAGNET SCHOOL JONESBORO | 492 | 100.0% | 16.6% |
| AMBOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 456 | 100.0% | 17.9% |
| LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 504 | 100.0% | 17.1% |
| HEALTH WELLNESS & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MAGNET JONESBORO | 633 | 100.0% | 27.0% |
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 MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Craighead County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #418 of 461 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #392 of 465 ▼ 10 | #14 of 14 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.6% | #458 of 465 ▼ 37 | #14 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #155 of 531 | #8 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #178 of 480 | #11 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.4% | #130 of 480 | #9 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #52 of 513 | #3 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #85 of 311 | #1 of 9 |
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
499
-62 (-11%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 495
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 499 | 32.3 | 15.4:1 | 100% (499) |
| 2023-24 | 516 | 33.2 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 32.7 | 16.5:1 | 100% (540) |
| 2020-21 | 561 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 100% (561) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 35.5 | 17.8:1 | 37% (236) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 94% (540) |
| 2010-11 | 520 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 93% (485) |
| 2000-01 | 522 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 71% (371) |
| 1990-91 | 495 | 25 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL.
About MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in Arkansas, located in JONESBORO. There are 499 students enrolled, covering grades 1 through 6.
The JONESBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 10 schools and 6,762 students.
Black students are 58% of those enrolled at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 19% White, 19% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Craighead County's population at about 17%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.
Classroom staffing at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL totals 32.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 16.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is about 100%. It compares with 67% for public schools in Craighead County.
On the allk12 Grade, MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 9% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (15.8%) and its predicted rate (22.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools.
For the population of Craighead County, the median household earns about $59,548 a year, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Craighead County, 37 public schools serve about 20,332 students.
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL's nearest public school is LEADERSHIP MAGNET SCHOOL (about 2.9 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is 6th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 561 to 499, an 11% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.5:1 to 15.4:1.
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Craighead County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,249
Census ACS
Median income
$59,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
20,332 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in JONESBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,505 students
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNETElementary · 731 students
- ANNIE CAMP JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 701 students
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAGNETElementary · 636 students
- HEALTH WELLNESS & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MAGNETElementary · 633 students
Other schools in JONESBORO
- THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,505 students
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,054 students
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 756 students
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNETElementary · 731 students
Nearby schools
- LEADERSHIP MAGNET SCHOOL2.9 mi · 492
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAGNET3.2 mi · 636
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 446
- EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER3.4 mi · 315
- KINDERGARTEN CENTER3.5 mi · 485
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS3.5 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 499 students in grades 01-06.
What grades does MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL serve?
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL serves grades 01-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is approximately 15.4:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
At MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 19% White, 19% Hispanic, 58% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL?
MATH & SCIENCE MAGNET SCHOOL is overseen by JONESBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT in Craighead County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.