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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051122000840
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
209 PARKERS CHAPEL ROAD, EL DORADO, AR 71730 · (870) 862-4641 · Union County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% 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.
- BBeats 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
17.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
192 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 62 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→PARKERS CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
49.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
58.8%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 | 49.0% | 58.8% |
| 2023-24 | 45.5% | 59.2% |
% 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
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 491 | 39.1% | 51.0% |
| GREENBRIER SPRINGHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENBRIER | 447 | 40.9% | 73.4% |
| PERRIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTON | 465 | 35.1% | 47.9% |
| GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY GREENBRIER | 552 | 41.3% | 62.2% |
| SHERIDAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 585 | 42.7% | 41.2% |
| MOUNTAIN SPRINGS ELEM SCHOOL CABOT | 494 | 37.0% | 59.8% |
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 PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #73 of 461 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #63 of 465 ▼ 19 | #2 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #88 of 465 ▲ 17 | #2 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #168 of 531 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #302 of 480 | #4 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.2% | #321 of 480 | #5 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.1% | #467 of 513 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #282 of 311 | 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
491
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 491 | 28.9 | 17.0:1 | 39% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 28.1 | 14.9:1 | 41% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 487 | 30.4 | 16.0:1 | 37% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 44% (219) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 32.4 | 15.7:1 | 26% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 510 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 45% (232) |
| 2010-11 | 383 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 36% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 25 | 13.7:1 | 16% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 380 | 25 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school in EL DORADO, Arkansas. It offers pre-K through 6 and has 491 students enrolled.
PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 2 schools and 847 students.
White students are 82% of those enrolled at PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. In Union County overall, about 62% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 32, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 17.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas, 16.0:1, is lower. Of all students at PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 39% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Union County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
On the allk12 Grade, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 76% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
A school with PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 45.3%. PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 51.0%, 5.7 points above that line.
The school is in Union County, where the median household earns about $55,259 a year, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Union County, 15 public schools serve about 6,933 students.
Of the public schools around it, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to PARKERS CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 6 on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Town: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 494 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 491. The number of students per teacher increased from 15.9 to 17.0 over 4 years.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,900
Census ACS
Median income
$55,259
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
6,933 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PARKERS CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 356 students
Other schools in EL DORADO
- EL DORADO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 581 students
- YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 580 students
- BARTON JR. HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 540 students
- HUGH GOODWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 508 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 477 students
Nearby schools
- PARKERS CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 356
- EL DORADO HIGH SCHOOL2.7 mi · 1,235
- YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 580
- BARTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL4.5 mi · 540
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 477
- WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL5.0 mi · 581
Frequently asked questions
About PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 491 students in grades PK-06.
Is PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1.
How diverse is PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 82% White, 4% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.