Enrollment
307
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000374
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4949 SPRADLING AVE, FORT SMITH, AR 72904 · (479) 783-8048 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL307 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% 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
18.3:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
290 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
23.2%
AR avg 34.9% . -5.4pp since 2023
Math
23.9%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 down about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.2% | 23.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.6% | 26.9% |
% 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
24.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (24.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 307 | 94.5% | 24.3% |
| SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 411 | 91.5% | 16.9% |
| PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 387 | 89.9% | 20.1% |
| HOWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 299 | 92.3% | 25.9% |
| SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 510 | 91.4% | 22.6% |
| HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 493 | 90.3% | 17.8% |
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 SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #352 of 461 | #16 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #361 of 465 ▼ 41 | #17 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #362 of 465 ▼ 57 | #19 of 23 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 307 | #385 of 531 | #15 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #395 of 480 | #11 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #155 of 480 | #15 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.5% | #149 of 513 | #3 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.1% | #42 of 311 | #3 of 18 |
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
307
-68 (-18%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 307 | 16.8 | 18.3:1 | 94% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 15.8 | 18.6:1 | 93% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 319 | 15.4 | 20.8:1 | 94% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 375 | 20 | 18.8:1 | 95% (355) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 28.7 | 14.9:1 | 46% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 28 | 16.2:1 | 97% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 94% (394) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 16 | 20.0:1 | 86% (274) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 15 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in FORT SMITH, Arkansas. It had 307 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 418 students, which makes this school 27% below average.
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 27 schools enrolling 14,164 students.
The share of Hispanic students at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 63%, a majority. The remaining students are 16% White, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census figures show Sebastian County is about 16% Hispanic. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 16.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 94%. On average, public schools in Sebastian County report 65%.
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 28% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Arkansas schools: 24.3% actual against 24.7% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Sebastian County show that the median household earns about $57,790 a year, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Sebastian County has 44 public schools with about 20,239 students, including SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest public school to SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 21.5% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 18%, from 375 to 307.
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Nearby schools
- SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 411
- TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 119
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 753
- HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 493
- SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 510
- BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 557
Frequently asked questions
About SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 307 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 16% White, 63% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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