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Enrollment
763
Elementary
DISTRICT 565 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051176000894
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
801 VINEY GROVE ROAD, PRAIRIE GROVE, AR 72753 · (479) 846-4211 · Washington County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL763 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
360 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 | 99 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 160 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 175 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 180 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 149 | 20% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→PRAIRIE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL→PRAIRIE GROVE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
41.7%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
50.6%
AR avg 38.9% . +10.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 are up about 10 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.7% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 40.3% |
% 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
42.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (42.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 763 | 47.2% | 42.5% |
| ALMA PRIMARY SCHOOL ALMA | 704 | 50.7% | N/A |
| PINE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BAUXITE | 753 | 46.5% | 33.7% |
| ALMA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ALMA | 685 | 50.7% | 34.9% |
| LAKESIDE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 721 | 49.5% | 50.2% |
| POTTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POTTSVILLE | 605 | 44.3% | 60.5% |
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 PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #155 of 461 | #15 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #115 of 465 ▲ 73 | #9 of 34 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #153 of 465 ▲ 42 | #14 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 763 | #19 of 531 | #1 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #462 of 480 | #32 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #297 of 480 | #30 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.2% | #436 of 513 | #25 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.0% | #92 of 138 | #8 of 11 |
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
763
-54 (-7%) vs 2020
+103% since 1990-91, when it was 376
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 18.2:1
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 | 763 | 39 | 19.6:1 | 47% (360) |
| 2023-24 | 801 | 39.9 | 20.1:1 | 38% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 767 | 39.1 | 19.6:1 | 37% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 817 | 45 | 18.2:1 | 51% (414) |
| 2017-18 | 720 | 44.7 | 16.1:1 | 29% (208) |
| 2015-16 | 676 | 41 | 16.5:1 | 47% (316) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 55% (218) |
| 2000-01 | 395 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 37% (145) |
| 1990-91 | 376 | 20 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in PRAIRIE GROVE, Arkansas. Its enrollment is 763 students, spread over pre-K through 3. That compares with an average of about 418 students for elementary schools in Arkansas.
The 4 schools in PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT enroll 2,259 students altogether, PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
At PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 79% of students are White. Smaller groups are 10% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Washington County is roughly 63% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 36%.
There are about 19.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 39. Elementary schools in Arkansas have an average ratio of 16.0:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 47%. On average, public schools in Washington County report 58%.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 42.3%. PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 42.5%.
In the surrounding county, Washington County, the median household earns about $70,639 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Washington County has 76 public schools with about 42,451 students, including PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Among nearby public schools, PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is closest at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 3. PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
From 817 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 763 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 18.2 to 19.6 over 4 years.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 620 students
- PRAIRIE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 550 students
- PRAIRIE GROVE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 326 students
Other schools in PRAIRIE GROVE
- PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 620 students
- PRAIRIE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 550 students
- PRAIRIE GROVE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 326 students
Other Prairie Grove Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Prairie Grove Elementary. PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Prairie Grove Elementary SchoolCrystal Lake, IL · 552 students
- Prairie Grove Elementary SchoolHazelton, IA · 23 students
Nearby schools
- PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 620
- PRAIRIE GROVE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 326
- PRAIRIE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 550
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL5.2 mi · 338
- BOB FOLSOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.2 mi · 438
- FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 690
Frequently asked questions
About PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 763 students in grades PK-03.
Is PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
How many teachers does PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.6:1.
How diverse is PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 79% White, 10% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Washington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.