MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary-level community in MAYFLOWER, Arkansas, run under MAYFLOWER SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 363 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within MAYFLOWER SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,015 students, MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Faulkner County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Faulkner County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Faulkner County) records that median household income runs about $67,289, 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), MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MAYFLOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.5%.

MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYFLOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 12%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 12% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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