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Enrollment
462
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050804000526
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1011 W BARTON, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 72301 · (870) 735-6443 · Crittenden County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL462 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% 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.
- 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
16.5:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
461 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 19% larger than its 6th grade class (57).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
32.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -7.2pp since 2023
Math
52.5%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.1% | 52.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 55.2% |
% 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
41.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% 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 18 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 RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (41.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 462 | 99.8% | 41.2% |
| CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 466 | 100.0% | 54.6% |
| PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRESCOTT | 363 | 100.0% | 30.3% |
| BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEXA | 342 | 100.0% | 22.1% |
| DREW CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 562 | 100.0% | 32.1% |
| MCGEHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MCGEHEE | 547 | 100.0% | 35.6% |
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 RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Crittenden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #171 of 461 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #100 of 465 ▼ 32 | #1 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #272 of 465 ▼ 92 | #1 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 462 | #201 of 531 | #7 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #265 of 480 | #3 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.5% | #204 of 480 | #4 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #83 of 513 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #99 of 311 | #3 of 6 |
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
462
-114 (-20%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
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 | 462 | 28 | 16.5:1 | 100% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 30 | 16.9:1 | 100% (507) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 32 | 16.5:1 | 100% (528) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 100% (576) |
| 2017-18 | 574 | 34.9 | 16.4:1 | 82% (471) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 100% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 557 | 30 | 18.6:1 | 99% (554) |
| 2000-01 | 364 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 24% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 25 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas, one of the schools in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school reports 462 students in kindergarten through 6.
WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 9 schools. Combined enrollment is 4,511 students.
A majority of students at RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 62%, are White. Next come 30% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 39% White. The chance that two students picked at random at RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
Its teaching staff equals 28 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.5:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas have a similar average ratio of 16.0:1. Around 100% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 90% average for public schools in Crittenden County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 18.5 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Arkansas.
In the county around the school, Crittenden County, median household income is about $55,358, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 19 public schools in Crittenden County.
MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 12.6% on proficiency, and RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 41.2%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 576 students in 2020-21 and 462 in 2024-25, a 20% decrease.
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Crittenden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,266
Census ACS
Median income
$55,358
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
8,770 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 554 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 461 students
Other schools in WEST MEMPHIS
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 897 students
- MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 762 students
- JACKSON WONDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 554 students
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 523 students
- WONDER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 511 students
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
Other Richland Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 12 states are named Richland Elementary. RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 8th largest of the 16.
- Richland ElementaryMemphis, TN · 907 students
- Richland ElementarySan Marcos, CA · 883 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolJohnstown, PA · 831 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolCrest Hill, IL · 774 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolRICHARDSON, TX · 643 students
Nearby schools
- MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL0.6 mi · 762
- THE ACADEMIES OF WEST MEMPHIS CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 897
- WEST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 461
- BRAGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 473
- FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 523
- WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 228
Frequently asked questions
About RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 462 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1.
What is the student diversity at RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 62% White, 3% Hispanic, 30% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT in Crittenden County.
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