PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized K-5 school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 517 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 24% above that benchmark.

PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 29 schools operated by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 22,685 students overall.

On demographics, PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 27% Pacific Islander, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Washington County's rate of about 58%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $70,639, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

J. O. KELLY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 607 (now 517). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 54% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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