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Enrollment
474
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000876
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY
3700 W 18TH STREET, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72204 · (501) 447-6400 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
471 students
DISTRICT 82% · 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 | 38 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
7.6%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
9.0%
AR avg 38.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 7.6% | 9.0% |
| 2023-24 | 9.1% | 6.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 STEPHENS ELEMENTARY
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY's state test result (8.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS ELEMENTARY this school | 474 | 99.4% | 8.1% |
| MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 468 | 100.0% | 21.9% |
| ANNA STRONG LEARNING ACADEMY MARIANNA | 417 | 99.8% | 17.9% |
| KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY WEST HELENA | 463 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| J.F. WAHL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HELENA | 539 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| BOONE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 428 | 100.0% | 9.4% |
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 STEPHENS ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.1% | #456 of 461 | #61 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #457 of 465 ▲ 3 | #60 of 63 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 7.6% | #463 of 465 ▼ 8 | #61 of 63 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #185 of 531 | #20 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #342 of 480 | #48 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.1% | #336 of 480 | #60 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #95 of 513 | #15 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.8% | #94 of 311 | #21 of 42 |
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
474
+26 (+6%) vs 2020
+43% since 2000-01, when it was 332
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 474 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 99% (471) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 29.8 | 15.9:1 | 94% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 25.5 | 17.0:1 | 94% (407) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 32 | 14.0:1 | 100% (447) |
| 2017-18 | 591 | 34.3 | 17.2:1 | 13% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 365 | 28 | 13.0:1 | 99% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 97% (423) |
| 2000-01 | 332 | 18 | 18.4:1 | 80% (264) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for STEPHENS ELEMENTARY.
About STEPHENS ELEMENTARY
Located in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 474 students enrolled.
The LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 40 schools and 22,320 students.
A large majority of enrollment at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is Black, at 84%. Beyond that, enrollment is 6% Hispanic, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 37%. The diversity index for STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is 29%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY totals 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1. 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 STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is about 99%. For comparison, public schools in Pulaski County average 71%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, STEPHENS ELEMENTARY would score about 22.9%. It scores 8.1%, a bottom-10% result among Arkansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Pulaski County, the median household earns about $62,873 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Counting STEPHENS ELEMENTARY, Pulaski County has 133 public schools.
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is about 0.4 miles from FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 25.1% on proficiency, and STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is below that at 8.1%.
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 474, from 448 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.0 to 17.6 over 4 years.
People who know STEPHENS ELEMENTARY can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Other Stephens Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Stephens Elementary. STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- Stephens Elementary SchoolBurlington, KY · 577 students
- Stephens Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 517 students
- Stephens ElementaryMadison, WI · 447 students
- Stephens Elementary SchoolSHADY SHORES, TX · 422 students
- Stephens ElementaryChowchilla, CA · 217 students
Nearby schools
- FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 62
- FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARY0.4 mi · 200
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,371
- IVY HILL PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.3 mi · 306
- PULASKI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 266
- PULASKI HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 585
Frequently asked questions
About STEPHENS ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY?
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 474 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does STEPHENS ELEMENTARY serve?
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is approximately 17.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is STEPHENS ELEMENTARY?
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 5% White, 6% Hispanic, 84% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is STEPHENS ELEMENTARY in?
STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is part of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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