PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in PRAIRIE GROVE, Arkansas, one of the schools within PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 763 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 83% bigger than that benchmark.

PRAIRIE GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,259 students. PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 58%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Washington County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $70,639 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), of which PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 720 (now 763). White enrollment moved from 87% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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