Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050001701497
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5027 HWY 135 NORTH, PARAGOULD, AR 72450 · (870) 240-2221 · Greene County
GRADES 02–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B-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
18.7:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
270 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 95 | 35% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 30% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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 PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
40.3%
AR avg 34.9% . +12.1pp since 2023
Math
38.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.3% | 38.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.2% | 31.7% |
% 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
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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 OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 270 | 100.0% | 35.5% |
| SOUTH SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEE BRANCH | 269 | 98.9% | 40.5% |
| CEDARVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CEDARVILLE | 274 | 98.9% | 31.4% |
| IZARD COUNTY CONSOLIDATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VIOLET HILL | 286 | 99.0% | 30.4% |
| CEDAR RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWARK | 263 | 98.9% | 38.3% |
| MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARSHALL | 284 | 98.9% | 44.6% |
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 OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Greene County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #238 of 461 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #229 of 465 ▲ 37 | #5 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #170 of 465 ▲ 143 | #3 of 6 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #431 of 531 | #6 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #421 of 480 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #349 of 480 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #4 of 513 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.0% | #54 of 138 | N/A |
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
270
+10 (+4%) vs 2020
-42% since 2010-11, when it was 466
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 270 | 14.4 | 18.7:1 | 100% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 259 | 13.1 | 19.8:1 | 100% (259) |
| 2022-23 | 249 | 13.8 | 18.0:1 | 100% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 260 | 13 | 20.0:1 | 100% (260) |
| 2017-18 | 239 | 13.3 | 18.0:1 | 31% (74) |
| 2015-16 | 228 | 13 | 17.5:1 | 68% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 29 | 16.1:1 | 69% (323) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in PARAGOULD, Arkansas, and it is part of PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT. It reported 270 students in grades 2 through 4 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Arkansas enroll about 418 students on average.
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 7 schools enroll 3,166 students.
White students are 85% of those enrolled at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 5% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 27%.
The school has 14.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 18.7 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Arkansas average 16.0:1. Of all students at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 100% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Greene County report 73%.
On the allk12 Grade, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 61% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (35.5%) and its predicted rate (22.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools.
For the population of Greene County, the median household earns about $57,839 a year, about 17% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. Across Greene County, 15 public schools serve about 7,364 students.
Measured in a straight line, OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 35.3% proficiency; OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 35.5%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Fringe. That means it sits in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment was 270 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 260. The ratio was 20.0:1 in 2020-21 and 18.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Greene County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,432
Census ACS
Median income
$57,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
7,364 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 881 students
- PARAGOULD PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGHMiddle · 512 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 447 students
- WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 233 students
- BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 221 students
Other schools in PARAGOULD
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 881 students
- GREENE CTY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 760 students
- GREENE CTY TECH PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 710 students
- PARAGOULD PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
- GREENE CTY TECH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 557 students
- GREENE CTY TECH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 521 students
Other Oak Grove Elementary schools
33 other US public schools in 20 states are named Oak Grove Elementary. OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 31st largest of the 34.
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR · 193 students
- Oak Grove Elementary SchoolLibertyville, IL · 911 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 832 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryHattiesburg, MS · 758 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryVisalia, CA · 756 students
Nearby schools
- OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 447
- PARAGOULD PRIMARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 602
- PARAGOULD JUNIOR HIGH4.2 mi · 512
- PARAGOULD HIGH SCHOOL4.3 mi · 881
- GREENE CTY TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 501
- GREENE CTY TECH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL4.3 mi · 501
Frequently asked questions
About OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 270 students in grades 02-04.
What age range does OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade 02 through grade 04.
How many teachers does OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 14 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
How diverse is OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 85% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PARAGOULD SCHOOL DISTRICT in Greene County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.