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What's the biggest difference between OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
372
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900001384
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
16000 OTTER CREEK PARKWAY, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72209 · (501) 447-5800 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- DTest 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
15.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
369 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
22.2%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.2% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 18.6% | 16.8% |
% 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
18.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% 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 OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (18.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 372 | 99.2% | 18.9% |
| MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MABELVALE | 369 | 99.2% | 10.7% |
| AMBOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 456 | 100.0% | 17.9% |
| BALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 330 | 99.1% | 8.2% |
| GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER LITTLE ROCK | 273 | 98.9% | N/A |
| REED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUMAS | 368 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
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 OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #394 of 461 | #39 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #414 of 465 ▼ 10 | #41 of 63 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #373 of 465 ▲ 36 | #34 of 63 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #311 of 531 | #38 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #215 of 480 | #31 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #209 of 480 | #39 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #102 of 513 | #18 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #116 of 311 | #24 of 42 |
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
372
-25 (-6%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
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 | 372 | 23.4 | 15.9:1 | 99% (369) |
| 2023-24 | 402 | 23 | 17.5:1 | 84% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 17 | 19.0:1 | 85% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 23 | 17.3:1 | 100% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 29.1 | 15.5:1 | 32% (144) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 31 | 17.5:1 | 99% (540) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 31 | 18.1:1 | 70% (396) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 17 | 21.9:1 | 39% (146) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 21 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. The grade span is kindergarten through 5, and enrollment is 372 students.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 22,320 students in its 40 schools, and OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 64% Black. Other groups make up 26% Hispanic, 7% White, and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 37% of Pulaski County residents are Black. By the diversity index, OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 52%.
Its teaching staff equals 23.4 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.9:1. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average ratio is about 16.0:1. Around 99% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is 28 points above the 71% average for public schools in Pulaski County.
The allk12 Grade for OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is C-. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 18% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 23.0% at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.9%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Pulaski County show that median household income is about $62,873, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County, which together enroll about 64,124 students.
The shortest distance from OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 2.1 miles, to MABELVALE MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 397 to 372. Students per teacher fell from 17.3 in 2020-21 to 15.9 in 2024-25.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Other Otter Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Otter Creek Elementary. OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Otter Creek Elementary SchoolElgin, IL · 437 students
- Otter Creek ElementaryGeorgetown, CA · 15 students
Nearby schools
- MABELVALE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 477
- ARKANSAS MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS ACADEMY (AMFRA)2.4 mi · 176
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 568
- ROBERT L. DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 504
- ACADEMIES OF MATH AND SCIENCE SCHOOL2.9 mi · 486
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL2.9 mi · 2,045
Frequently asked questions
About OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 372 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.9:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 7% White, 26% Hispanic, 64% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.