STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary-level community in FORREST CITY, Arkansas, part of FORREST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 400 students in grades 3 through 5.

Within FORREST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,078 students, STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). The remainder looks like 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Across the wider county, St. Francis County reports that median household income runs about $42,574, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. Across St. Francis County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,904 students), STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FORREST CITY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 29%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 89% to 94%.

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