SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a compact K-5 school in BATESVILLE, Arkansas, run under BATESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 333 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by BATESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 3,513 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Independence County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Independence County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Independence County shows median household earnings sit near $56,609, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Independence County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,855 students), SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CEDAR RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SULPHUR ROCK MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 328 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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