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Enrollment
604
Elementary
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051266001532
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
20200 SONORA ROAD, SPRINGDALE, AR 72765 · (479) 750-8820 · Washington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
17.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
452 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
34.3%
AR avg 34.9% . +4.2pp since 2023
Math
31.8%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.3% | 31.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.1% | 34.0% |
% 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
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 604 | 74.8% | 31.6% |
| DARDANELLE PRIMARY SCHOOL DARDANELLE | 615 | 76.9% | 30.7% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 582 | 80.6% | 33.3% |
| WEST MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BATESVILLE | 599 | 81.6% | 29.8% |
| BERRYVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 423 | 75.4% | N/A |
| BERRYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 406 | 73.4% | 37.1% |
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 SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #279 of 461 | #24 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #291 of 465 ▼ 41 | #25 of 34 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #244 of 465 ▲ 41 | #23 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #72 of 531 | #6 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #367 of 480 | #20 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #96 of 480 | #9 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.8% | #241 of 513 | #13 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #220 of 311 | #15 of 20 |
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
604
+49 (+9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 604 | 33.8 | 17.9:1 | 75% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 590 | 35.8 | 16.5:1 | 79% (468) |
| 2022-23 | 663 | 38.4 | 17.3:1 | 71% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 555 | 35 | 15.9:1 | 72% (401) |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 37 | 18.0:1 | 50% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 721 | 41 | 17.6:1 | 79% (572) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in SPRINGDALE, Arkansas. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 604 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 418 students for elementary schools in Arkansas.
Enrollment across the 29 schools in SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 22,685 students.
Federal enrollment data show SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 51% White. Other groups make up 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 6% Pacific Islander. Washington County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 17.9:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas have an average ratio of 16.0:1. By family income, 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Washington County average 58%.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.6%, compared with a predicted 32.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Washington County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $70,639 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Washington County has 76 public schools with about 42,451 students, including SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, SONORA MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal data place SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 604, up from 555 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 17.9:1, from 15.9:1.
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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 SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Other schools in SPRINGDALE
- HAR-BER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,271 students
- SPRINGDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,207 students
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONCombined · 1,976 students
- HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 852 students
- HELLSTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 849 students
Other Sonora Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sonora Elementary. SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Sonora ElementarySonora, CA · 643 students
- Sonora ElementaryCosta Mesa, CA · 367 students
- Sonora Elementary SchoolSONORA, TX · 365 students
Nearby schools
- SONORA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 668
- TURNBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 599
- DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATION2.1 mi · 1,976
- LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 654
- HARP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 559
- PARSON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 517
Frequently asked questions
About SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 604 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.9:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 51% White, 34% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SONORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Washington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.