Enrollment
243
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051311001733
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
2118 E 35TH, TEXARKANA, AR 71854 · (870) 773-1091 · Miller County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL243 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
12.7:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
243 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
51.7%
AR avg 34.9% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
47.6%
AR avg 38.9% . -10.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.7% | 47.6% |
| 2023-24 | 45.6% | 58.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (48.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 243 | 100.0% | 48.2% |
| BEARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEARDEN | 219 | 98.6% | 23.1% |
| NEVADA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROSSTON | 226 | 100.0% | 25.6% |
| BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEXA | 342 | 100.0% | 22.1% |
| PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRESCOTT | 363 | 100.0% | 30.3% |
| WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARAGOULD | 233 | 100.0% | 39.6% |
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 NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Miller County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #95 of 461 | #2 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #145 of 465 ▼ 97 | #2 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #70 of 465 ▲ 34 | #2 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 243 | #449 of 531 | #7 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #22 of 480 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.6% | #196 of 480 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #78 of 513 | #5 of 8 |
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.
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 243 | 19.2 | 12.7:1 | 100% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 240 | 16.4 | 14.6:1 | 100% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 241 | 14 | 17.2:1 | 100% (241) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Students in TEXARKANA, Arkansas, attend NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. The school counts 243 students across kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418 students.
TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT runs NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL along with 7 other schools, enrolling 3,830 students in total.
A majority of students at NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 61%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 54%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 19.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 12.7:1. That ratio is under the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. That is higher than the 80% average for public schools in Miller County.
The allk12 Grade for NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL is A. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL is 22.7%. It actually posts 48.2%, which is 25.6 points higher and in the top 10% of Arkansas schools.
Census estimates describe Miller County this way: median household income is about $48,836, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15%, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Miller County number 16 and enroll about 6,217.
The nearest other public school, VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.7 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Small, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
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Miller County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,360
Census ACS
Median income
$48,836
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
6,217 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,092 students
- ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 842 students
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- COLLEGE HILL HARMONY LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 391 students
- VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 373 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 246 students
Other schools in TEXARKANA
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,092 students
- ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 842 students
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- COLLEGE HILL HARMONY LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 391 students
- VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 373 students
- GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 365 students
Nearby schools
- VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 373
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 473
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA1.3 mi · 67
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,092
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 246
- ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 842
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOLHow large is NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 243 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL serve?
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the student diversity at NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL are roughly 61% White, 4% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL is overseen by TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT in Miller County.
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