Enrollment
235
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000368
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3609 PHOENIX AVE, FORT SMITH, AR 72903 · (479) 646-3711 · Sebastian County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL235 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 58% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
17.1:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
166 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
39.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.7% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 35.1% |
% 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
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 235 | 70.6% | 39.1% |
| CAVANAUGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 303 | 71.9% | 47.8% |
| BEARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 297 | 78.1% | 30.9% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LINCOLN | 356 | 72.2% | 32.5% |
| BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 287 | 74.6% | 40.3% |
| BARLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BARLING | 316 | 78.2% | 36.6% |
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 RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #198 of 461 | #10 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #194 of 465 ▲ 41 | #9 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #175 of 465 ▼ 20 | #10 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 235 | #456 of 531 | #21 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #312 of 480 | #7 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #57 of 480 | #6 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.6% | #284 of 513 | #16 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.0% | #9 of 311 | #1 of 18 |
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
235
-114 (-33%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 297
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 235 | 13.8 | 17.1:1 | 71% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 15.7 | 19.7:1 | 70% (217) |
| 2022-23 | 306 | 17.7 | 17.3:1 | 77% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | 20 | 17.4:1 | 73% (256) |
| 2017-18 | 398 | 26.2 | 15.2:1 | 38% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 396 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 67% (267) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 24 | 17.2:1 | 63% (260) |
| 2000-01 | 385 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 41% (157) |
| 1990-91 | 297 | 14 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in Arkansas, with an address in FORT SMITH. The school counts 235 students across kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418 students.
Federal data list 27 schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 14,164 students enrolled.
At 53%, White students outnumber all other groups at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. Other students are 20% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 5% Asian. By comparison, Sebastian County residents are about 68% White. The chance that two students picked at random at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1 at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 13.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 71% of enrollment.
allk12 grades RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Arkansas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 33.6%. RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 39.1%.
Federal survey data for Sebastian County show that median household income is about $57,790, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. A total of 44 public schools operate in Sebastian County, serving about 20,239 students.
The closest other public school is CARNALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 39.1% compares with 31.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students declined from 349 to 235 over 4 years.
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Nearby schools
- CARNALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 172
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 2,053
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 582
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 801
- BONNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 287
- BALLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 235 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 53% White, 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Is RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
RAYMOND F. ORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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