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 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.0%.

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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