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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 379 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051206000970
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1501 SOUTH DETROIT, RUSSELLVILLE, AR 72801 · (479) 968-2084 · Pope County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
17.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
433 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 9% larger than its 4th grade class (82).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
28.3%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
25.0%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.3% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.8% | 26.3% |
% 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
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 503 | 86.1% | 28.8% |
| KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VAN BUREN | 437 | 86.3% | 22.1% |
| MONITOR ELEMENTARY SPRINGDALE | 586 | 82.8% | 29.0% |
| WEST MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BATESVILLE | 599 | 81.6% | 29.8% |
| DEQUEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DE QUEEN | 558 | 81.9% | 46.2% |
| DEQUEEN PRIMARY DE QUEEN | 555 | 79.3% | N/A |
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 OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pope County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #313 of 461 | #6 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #351 of 465 ▼ 25 | #8 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #315 of 465 ▼ 39 | #8 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #150 of 531 | #3 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #322 of 480 | #9 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.9% | #81 of 480 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #177 of 513 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #242 of 311 | #4 of 7 |
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
503
+29 (+6%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 389
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 503 | 29.1 | 17.3:1 | 86% (433) |
| 2023-24 | 463 | 28.8 | 16.1:1 | 86% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 475 | 32.7 | 14.5:1 | 70% (331) |
| 2020-21 | 474 | 36 | 13.2:1 | 85% (404) |
| 2017-18 | 541 | 37 | 14.6:1 | 45% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 40 | 12.6:1 | 84% (423) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 80% (389) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 66% (221) |
| 1990-91 | 389 | 21 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas. The school's enrollment of 503 students covers pre-K through 4. Statewide, elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students each.
Besides OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 other schools. The district enrolls 5,591 students.
Enrollment at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 46%. It is also 37% White, 8% multiracial, and 8% Black. For comparison, the population of Pope County is roughly 11% Hispanic. By the diversity index, OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 64%.
Staffing totals 29.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. That ratio is over the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 86%. Compared with the 64% average for public schools in Pope County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 27.8%. OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 28.8%, within a point of that line.
In the county around the school, Pope County, median household income is about $57,344, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 25 public schools in Pope County.
The shortest distance from OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF RUSSELLVILLE. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Town: Remote, which covers schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 6%, from 474 to 503. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.2:1 to 17.3:1 over the same years.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pope County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,131
Census ACS
Median income
$57,344
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,311 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 808 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
Other schools in RUSSELLVILLE
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,281 students
- RUSSELLVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 808 students
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 795 students
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 436 students
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
Nearby schools
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF RUSSELLVILLE0.6 mi · 31
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,281
- RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 795
- RUSSELLVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 436
- SEQUOYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 542
- DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 234
Frequently asked questions
About OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 37% White, 46% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pope County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.