PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 209 PARKERS CHAPEL ROAD, in EL DORADO, Arkansas, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus that caters to 491 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

PARKERS CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 847 students. PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Union County put the typical household earns roughly $55,259 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Union County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,933 students), of which PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PARKERS CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. PARKERS CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 508 (now 491). Class-load math has rose: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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