MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school in JACKSONVILLE, Arkansas, run under JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 428 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within JACKSONVILLE NORTH PULASKI SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,360 students, MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment; the rest consists of 17% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.8%; actual is 16.4%, a gap of -19.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pulaski County put median household earnings sit near $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

JACKSONVILLE LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 524 (now 428). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 22% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.