STEPHENS ELEMENTARY

STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is one of the average-sized elementary schools in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, part of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 474 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 40 schools and 22,320 students, STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, STEPHENS ELEMENTARY records that nearly all students (84%) are Black. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pulaski County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STEPHENS ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 22.5%; this one comes in at 7.1%, -15.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which STEPHENS ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARY, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEPHENS ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

STEPHENS ELEMENTARY operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEPHENS ELEMENTARY has declined 20%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 84% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.