Enrollment
89
Elementary
DISTRICT 90 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050007605161
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY
250 SOUTH HIGHWAY 65, WESTERN GROVE, AR 72685 · (870) 439-2213 · Searcy County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL89 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
8 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
86 students
DISTRICT 96% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY→OZARK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
36.7%
AR avg 33.9%
Math
23.3%
AR avg 36.5%
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
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
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 24% 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 16 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 →
About ST. JOE ELEMENTARY
As a tiny primary school in WESTERN GROVE, Arkansas, ST. JOE ELEMENTARY caters to 89 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so ST. JOE ELEMENTARY sits 79% below that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT (495 students total), ST. JOE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, ST. JOE ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Searcy County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting ST. JOE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at ST. JOE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, ST. JOE ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.5%; actual is 39.3%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, census data for Searcy County shows median household income runs about $44,426, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Searcy County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 896 students), of which ST. JOE ELEMENTARY is one.
WESTERN GROVE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, ST. JOE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.
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Searcy County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
7,859
Census ACS
Median income
$44,426
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
7
896 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OZARK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 225 students
- WESTERN GROVE ELEMENTARYElementary · 153 students
- BRUNO-PYATT ELEMENTARYElementary · 28 students
- BRUNO-PYATT K-12 SCHOOLCombined
- ST. JOE K-12 SCHOOLCombined
- WESTERN GROVE K-12 SCHOOLCombined
Other schools in WESTERN GROVE
- OZARK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 225 students
- WESTERN GROVE ELEMENTARYElementary · 153 students
- BRUNO-PYATT ELEMENTARYElementary · 28 students
- WESTERN GROVE K-12 SCHOOLCombined
Nearby schools
- WESTERN GROVE ELEMENTARY10.0 mi · 153
- OZARK MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL10.0 mi · 225
- BRUNO-PYATT ELEMENTARY10.9 mi · 28
- MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL11.3 mi · 353
- MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL12.4 mi · 284
- VALLEY SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL14.1 mi · 219
Frequently asked questions
About ST. JOE ELEMENTARYHow many students attend ST. JOE ELEMENTARY?
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 89 students in grades KG-06.
Is ST. JOE ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does ST. JOE ELEMENTARY have?
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY employs 8 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
How diverse is ST. JOE ELEMENTARY?
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 88% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Two or more.
Is ST. JOE ELEMENTARY public or private?
ST. JOE ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by OZARK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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