Enrollment
266
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900001190
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
319 NORTH PINE, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72205 · (501) 447-5900 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL266 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
128 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
44.6%
AR avg 34.9% . -6.1pp since 2023
Math
47.5%
AR avg 38.9% . +13.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.6% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 50.7% | 33.6% |
% 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
43.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% 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 PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 266 | 48.1% | 43.0% |
| JOE T. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 295 | 45.8% | 30.4% |
| SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 424 | 46.7% | 42.6% |
| EMERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EMERSON | 226 | 51.3% | 63.6% |
| JULIA LEE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 328 | 40.5% | 57.8% |
| WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 293 | 49.1% | 53.8% |
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 PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #146 of 461 | #11 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #146 of 465 ▲ 107 | #10 of 63 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #119 of 465 ▼ 52 | #11 of 63 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 266 | #433 of 531 | #56 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #359 of 480 | #51 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.0% | #136 of 480 | #23 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #432 of 513 | #59 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #246 of 311 | #36 of 42 |
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
266
+6 (+2%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 325
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 266 | 15 | 17.8:1 | 48% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 273 | 14.5 | 18.8:1 | 50% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 271 | 15 | 18.1:1 | 48% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 260 | 15 | 17.3:1 | 43% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 285 | 17.1 | 16.6:1 | 20% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 320 | 20 | 16.0:1 | 53% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 20 | 16.6:1 | 50% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 310 | 14 | 22.1:1 | 42% (131) |
| 1990-91 | 325 | 20 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school located in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, in Pulaski County. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 266 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Arkansas enroll about 418 students on average.
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 40 schools enroll 22,320 students.
The biggest share of students at PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 49%, is White. The remaining shares are 41% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That is in line with Pulaski County, where about 49% of residents are White. The diversity index for PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 15 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Arkansas average 16.0:1. PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 48%. Across public schools in Pulaski County, the average is 71%.
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 43.0% and a predicted 41.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Pulaski County show that median household income comes to about $62,873, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Pulaski County counts 133 public schools with about 64,124 students.
PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 43.0% compares with 38.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment went from 260 in 2020-21 to 266 in 2024-25, a change of 6 students.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 585
- ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 32
- ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ELEM0.7 mi · 30
- FAIR PARK EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.0 mi · 195
- SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF1.0 mi · 104
- STEPHENS ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 266 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 49% White, 3% Hispanic, 41% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
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