SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1102 BELLA VISTA ROAD, in BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 381 students (grades K through 4), operated by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 24 schools and 19,575 students, SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Benton County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Benton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,506 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Benton County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students), SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 20%, going from 477 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025.

On this page, members of the SUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.