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What's something ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050612000325
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1529 MISSION BLVD, FAYETTEVILLE, AR 72701 · (479) 444-3075 · Washington County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
17.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
66 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 88 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (95).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
79.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
83.3%
AR avg 38.9% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 72.3% | 67.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% 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 21 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 ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (75.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 445 | 14.8% | 75.0% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 404 | 16.6% | 60.9% |
| SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 381 | 18.6% | 61.1% |
| VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAYETTEVILLE | 558 | 11.3% | 69.8% |
| MT. VIEW ELEMENTARY BENTON | 431 | 22.5% | 49.5% |
| ELM TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 583 | 14.9% | 65.3% |
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 ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #3 of 461 | #1 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #1 of 465 ▲ 15 | #1 of 34 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #1 of 465 ▲ 1 | #1 of 34 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #219 of 531 | #25 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #363 of 480 | #19 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.9% | #343 of 480 | #34 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.8% | #507 of 513 | #34 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.7% | #87 of 138 | #6 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
445
+30 (+7%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 514
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 | 445 | 25 | 17.8:1 | 15% (66) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 26 | 17.9:1 | 14% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 24 | 19.6:1 | 13% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 415 | 24 | 17.3:1 | 21% (87) |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 24.5 | 17.0:1 | 10% (43) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 25 | 16.1:1 | 20% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 528 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 16% (84) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 22 | 19.9:1 | 11% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 24 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school. The school reports 445 students in kindergarten through 4.
FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 17 schools and 10,291 students, ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
The large majority of students at ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 84%, are White. Next come 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 63% White. ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 28%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 25 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 17.8:1. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. The school's lunch program data list 15% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Washington County, the average is 58%.
The allk12 Grade for ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A+. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 99% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 54.3%. It actually posts 75.0%, which is 20.7 points higher and in the top 10% of Arkansas schools.
Federal survey data for Washington County show that median household income is about $70,639, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. A total of 76 public schools operate in Washington County, serving about 42,451 students.
WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 59.0% on proficiency, and ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 75.0%.
The NCES locale for ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The number of students climbed from 415 to 445 over 4 years.
If you have questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 670 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
Other schools in FAYETTEVILLE
- FAYETTEVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,588 students
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- RAMAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 761 students
- MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 670 students
- OWL CREEK SCHOOLElementary · 619 students
- HOLCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 603 students
Other Root Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Root Elementary. ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Root ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 469 students
Nearby schools
- WOODLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 765
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 293
- MCNAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 670
- VANDERGRIFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 558
- HAPPY HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 521
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF FAYETTEVILLE1.6 mi · 14
Frequently asked questions
About ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 445 students in grades KG-04.
Is ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the student diversity at ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 84% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Washington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.