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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 427 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051248001006
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2 GREYHOUND CIR., IMBODEN, AR 72434 · (870) 869-2101 · Lawrence County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
16.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
325 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 58 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 18% smaller than its 6th grade class (67).
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
30.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
43.4%
AR avg 38.9% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.7% | 43.4% |
| 2023-24 | 35.2% | 42.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 456 | 71.3% | 36.4% |
| FOUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUKE | 514 | 68.1% | 31.6% |
| RECTOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECTOR | 389 | 71.2% | 29.5% |
| PERRYVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PERRYVILLE | 464 | 69.0% | 36.1% |
| SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SALEM | 434 | 66.1% | 47.4% |
| BERGMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HARRISON | 474 | 65.6% | 53.5% |
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 SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #225 of 461 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #179 of 465 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #287 of 465 ▼ 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #208 of 531 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #250 of 480 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.8% | #469 of 480 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #279 of 513 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +53.5% | #7 of 138 |
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
456
+69 (+18%) vs 2020
+71% since 1990-91, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 456 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 71% (325) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 26.1 | 14.8:1 | 85% (329) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 28.8 | 15.3:1 | 69% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 387 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 62% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 297 | 18.6 | 16.0:1 | 38% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 315 | 21 | 15.0:1 | 68% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 287 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 64% (185) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 73% (233) |
| 1990-91 | 267 | 17 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in IMBODEN, Arkansas. It enrolled 456 students in pre-K through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
Federal data list 2 schools in SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 854 students enrolled.
White students make up 96% of enrollment at SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Pick two students at random and there is a 7% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 16.3:1. That matches the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 71%.
Measured against Arkansas public elementary schools, SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 36.4% and a predicted 33.3%.
Among Lawrence County residents, the median household income is $44,882, roughly 15% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Rural: Remote.
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment grew from 387 in 2020-21 to 456 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.3:1.
The SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Lawrence County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
16,238
Census ACS
Median income
$44,882
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
9
3,293 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 398 students
Other schools in IMBODEN
- SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 398 students
- IMBODEN AREA CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 70 students
Nearby schools
- SLOAN-HENDRIX HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 398
- IMBODEN AREA CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 70
- POCAHONTAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL12.3 mi · 703
- POCAHONTAS UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL12.5 mi · 402
- POCAHONTAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL12.5 mi · 456
- POCAHONTAS HIGH SCHOOL12.7 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 456 students in grades PK-06.
Is SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the student diversity at SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 96% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SLOAN HENDRIX SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.