MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in WHITE HALL, Arkansas, operated by WHITE HALL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 408 students in grades K through 5.

Within WHITE HALL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 3,046 students, MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder breaks down as 23% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $51,096 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Jefferson County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students), MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WHITE HALL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 6%, going from 384 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 79% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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