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If you could change one rule at POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 460 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051170000890
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
87 SOUTH B, POTTSVILLE, AR 72858 · (479) 968-2133 · Pope County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
16.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
268 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 31 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 150 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 144 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 136 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 144 | 24% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · 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
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→POTTSVILLE MIDDLE GRADE→POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
55.8%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
67.3%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.8% | 67.3% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 71.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 605 | 44.3% | 60.5% |
| SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CABOT | 551 | 46.1% | 46.5% |
| EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CABOT | 550 | 44.2% | 52.8% |
| SHERIDAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 585 | 42.7% | 41.2% |
| SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERIDAN | 523 | 46.5% | N/A |
| GREENBRIER WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY GREENBRIER | 552 | 41.3% | 62.2% |
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 POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pope County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #28 of 461 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #25 of 465 ▼ 14 | #1 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #45 of 465 ▼ 10 | #2 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #69 of 531 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #286 of 480 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #357 of 480 | #6 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #451 of 513 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.9% | #82 of 138 | 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
605
+60 (+11%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 605 | 36.1 | 16.8:1 | 44% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 35.4 | 15.9:1 | 53% (298) |
| 2022-23 | 599 | 35.8 | 16.7:1 | 43% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 545 | 34 | 16.0:1 | 51% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 566 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 31% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 576 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 56% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 49% (262) |
| 2000-01 | 420 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 46% (193) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 24 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in POTTSVILLE, Arkansas, and it is part of POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. In all, 605 students attend the school in pre-K through 3. It has 45% more students than the average for elementary schools in Arkansas (about 418).
POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT is responsible for 4 schools, POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL included, with 1,838 students in all.
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 86% White by enrollment. The remaining shares are 10% Hispanic. That is in line with Pope County, where about 84% of residents are White. The diversity index for POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 25%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 36.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1. The school reported 44% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is below the 64% average among public schools in Pope County.
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the top 10% of Arkansas schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 17.1 points above it (60.5% actual, 43.4% predicted).
For Pope County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $57,344, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. The county has 25 public schools and about 10,311 students.
Of the public schools around it, POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to POTTSVILLE MIDDLE GRADE, about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 7 other public schools. On average proficiency, POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 545 (2020-21) to 605 (2024-25).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. You can also rate the school on this page.
Pope County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,131
Census ACS
Median income
$57,344
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
10,311 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- POTTSVILLE MIDDLE GRADEMiddle · 417 students
- POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 412 students
- POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 404 students
Other schools in POTTSVILLE
- POTTSVILLE MIDDLE GRADEMiddle · 417 students
- POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 412 students
- POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 404 students
Nearby schools
- POTTSVILLE MIDDLE GRADE0.1 mi · 417
- POTTSVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 412
- POTTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 404
- RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL3.8 mi · 1,281
- OAKLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 503
- CRAWFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 605 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many students per teacher at POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 86% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by POTTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pope County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.