Enrollment
345
Elementary
DISTRICT 320 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050002601670
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4200 S FIR ST, PINE BLUFF, AR 71602 · (870) 543-4390 · Jefferson County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL345 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
345 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (58).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · 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
Based on grade levels within PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
19.3%
AR avg 34.9% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
13.2%
AR avg 38.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.3% | 13.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.2% | 10.1% |
% 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
12.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (12.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 345 | 100.0% | 12.9% |
| MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 367 | 100.0% | 11.4% |
| ROCKEFELLER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER LITTLE ROCK | 317 | 99.1% | N/A |
| THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 399 | 100.0% | 10.0% |
| STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORREST CITY | 400 | 100.0% | 20.1% |
| WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 315 | 99.0% | 12.9% |
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 SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #432 of 461 | #8 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #433 of 465 ▲ 8 | #8 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #394 of 465 ▲ 44 | #7 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 345 | #345 of 531 | #8 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #156 of 480 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.9% | #403 of 480 | #7 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #10 of 513 | #4 of 12 |
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
345
-112 (-25%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 345 | 22.6 | 15.3:1 | 100% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 24 | 16.2:1 | 100% (389) |
| 2022-23 | 394 | 26 | 15.1:1 | 100% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 25 | 18.3:1 | 100% (457) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, one of the schools in PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 345 students.
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 7 schools with 2,896 students.
At SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 90% of students are Black. It is also 4% White and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Jefferson County is roughly 57% Black. The diversity index for SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 18%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 22.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.3 students per teacher. The gap from the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 0.7 students per teacher. Roughly 100% of students at SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Jefferson County is 23 points.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 22.7%. It scores 12.9%, 9.7 points below that figure.
Jefferson County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $51,096, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 28 public schools in the county, enrolling about 8,520, SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF, is the closest to SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 14.9%, higher than SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 12.9%.
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, a location NCES labels Town: Distant.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 25%, from 457 to 345. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.3 to 15.3 over 4 years.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,802
Census ACS
Median income
$51,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
8,520 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 688 students
- PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 367 students
- BROADMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 283 students
- FORREST PARK GREENVILLE PRESCHOOLElementary · 204 students
Other schools in PINE BLUFF
- PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 688 students
- PINE BLUFF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 593 students
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFFElementary · 469 students
- COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 426 students
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
Other Southwood Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Southwood Elementary. SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 10.
- Southwood ElementaryLexington, NC · 616 students
- SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 481 students
- Southwood Elementary SchoolWabash, IN · 458 students
- Southwood Elementary SchoolEnumclaw, WA · 358 students
- SOUTHWOOD ELEM.RAYTOWN, MO · 346 students
Nearby schools
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF0.4 mi · 469
- FORREST PARK GREENVILLE PRESCHOOL0.8 mi · 204
- EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 199
- WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 334
- THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 399
- WATSON CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 593
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 345 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 1% Hispanic, 90% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT in Jefferson County.
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