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Enrollment
411
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050633000376
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5001 KELLEY HWY, FORT SMITH, AR 72904 · (479) 785-1778 · Sebastian County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
376 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
22.1%
AR avg 34.9% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
18.4%
AR avg 38.9% . +8.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.1% | 18.4% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 9.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
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 SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (16.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 411 | 91.5% | 16.9% |
| SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 510 | 91.4% | 22.6% |
| SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 307 | 94.5% | 24.3% |
| HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 493 | 90.3% | 17.8% |
| PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT SMITH | 387 | 89.9% | 20.1% |
| WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRINGDALE | 498 | 86.1% | 19.7% |
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 SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Sebastian County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #414 of 461 | #22 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #400 of 465 ▲ 41 | #21 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #374 of 465 ▲ 27 | #20 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #262 of 531 | #9 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #132 of 480 | #2 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #100 of 480 | #14 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.5% | #155 of 513 | #5 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #66 of 311 | #5 of 18 |
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
411
-154 (-27%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 290
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 411 | 27.4 | 15.0:1 | 91% (376) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 28.2 | 14.7:1 | 88% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 470 | 28.7 | 16.4:1 | 91% (430) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 92% (519) |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 37.4 | 14.3:1 | 48% (257) |
| 2015-16 | 574 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 96% (551) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 32 | 15.4:1 | 93% (458) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 21 | 17.7:1 | 81% (302) |
| 1990-91 | 290 | 15 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In FORT SMITH, Arkansas, part of Sebastian County, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. Enrollment totals 411 students across pre-K through 5.
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among 27 schools run by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which serves 14,164 students.
More than half of the students at SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (57%). Other reported shares: 16% White, 10% Black, 10% multiracial, and 7% Asian. That compares with about 16% Hispanic among all Sebastian County residents. The diversity index for SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 27.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.0:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1. There are 376 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 91% of enrollment. The 65% average for public schools in Sebastian County is 26 points lower.
In Arkansas, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 16.9% actual against a predicted 25.8%.
In Sebastian County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $57,790, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 44 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,239, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 20.8%, higher than SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 16.9%.
NCES assigns SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 411 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 565. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.1:1 to 15.0:1.
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Sebastian County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
128,900
Census ACS
Median income
$57,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other schools in FORT SMITH
- NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,231 students
- SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,053 students
- RAMSEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 801 students
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- L. A. CHAFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 753 students
- WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 711 students
Other Sutton Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Sutton Elementary. SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Sutton Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 833 students
- Sutton Elementary SchoolOwensboro, KY · 535 students
- Sutton ElementarySutton, MA · 287 students
- SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSUTTON, NE · 225 students
- Sutton Elementary SchoolSutton, WV · 166 students
Nearby schools
- DORA KIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 753
- SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 307
- SUNNYMEDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 510
- TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 119
- PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 387
- HARRY C. MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 493
Frequently asked questions
About SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 411 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.0:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 57% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.