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Enrollment
481
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051197001088
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3001 S OLD WIRE RD, ROGERS, AR 72758 · (479) 631-3510 · Benton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL481 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
15.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
396 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 11 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 47% smaller than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
44%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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
40.5%
AR avg 34.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.5% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.9% | 41.7% |
% 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
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 481 | 82.3% | 38.3% |
| ELMDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 510 | 88.8% | 15.6% |
| GRACE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 403 | 77.7% | 41.4% |
| LINDA CHILDERS KNAPP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 607 | 89.0% | 21.5% |
| GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 676 | 87.9% | 22.2% |
| BAYYARI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 543 | 92.4% | 18.3% |
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 OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #207 of 461 | #36 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #172 of 465 ▲ 2 | #30 of 39 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #167 of 465 ▲ 6 | #30 of 39 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 481 | #176 of 531 | #24 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #172 of 480 | #10 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.8% | #254 of 480 | #33 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.3% | #187 of 513 | #2 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.0% | #83 of 311 | #5 of 26 |
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
481
-73 (-13%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 481 | 31.3 | 15.4:1 | 82% (396) |
| 2023-24 | 492 | 30.3 | 16.2:1 | 87% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 516 | 31.1 | 16.6:1 | 84% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 554 | 32 | 17.3:1 | 83% (458) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 36.1 | 16.9:1 | 56% (344) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 33 | 17.2:1 | 85% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 531 | 30 | 17.7:1 | 83% (442) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of ROGERS, Arkansas. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 481 students.
ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT has 15,688 students in 23 schools, and OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (73%). Beyond that, enrollment is 11% White, 9% Pacific Islander, and 3% multiracial. In Benton County overall, about 19% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 44%.
On staff are 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. That is in line with the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas. OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 82%. On average, public schools in Benton County report 37%.
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 62% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 38.3% and a predicted 29.2%.
The county, Benton County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $93,506, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 88 public schools and about 57,071 students.
Among nearby public schools, KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest at about 0.6 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's student count decreased 13% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.3 to 15.4 over 4 years.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
303,632
Census ACS
Median income
$93,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
57,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,066 students
- KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 890 students
- OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 809 students
- LINGLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 643 students
Other schools in ROGERS
- ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- ROGERS HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- ELMWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,066 students
- KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 890 students
- OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 809 students
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS BENTONVILLEElementary · 787 students
Nearby schools
- KIRKSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 890
- JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 463
- ROGERS NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 640
- EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 505
- ARKANSAS ARTS ACADEMY ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 523
- BONNIE GRIMES ELEM. SCHOOL1.9 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 481 students in grades PK-05.
Is OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
How diverse is OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 11% White, 73% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OLD WIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by ROGERS SCHOOL DISTRICT in Benton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.