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Enrollment
516
Elementary
DISTRICT 357 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000940
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
402 DEE JAY HUDSON DRIVE, SHERWOOD, AR 72120 · (501) 833-1140 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL516 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
252 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
43.4%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
32.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 down about 5 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.4% | 32.2% |
| 2023-24 | 41.7% | 36.9% |
% 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
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 516 | 48.8% | 39.1% |
| SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 424 | 46.7% | 42.6% |
| FULBRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 485 | 53.4% | 42.9% |
| CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 514 | 54.5% | 51.2% |
| BOBBY G LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 421 | 45.1% | 23.6% |
| OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 408 | 57.1% | 30.3% |
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 SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #199 of 461 | #14 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #286 of 465 ▼ 62 | #19 of 63 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #138 of 465 ▲ 13 | #13 of 63 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 516 | #136 of 531 | #15 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #360 of 480 | #52 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #59 of 480 | #10 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.8% | #429 of 513 | #57 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.6% | #29 of 138 | #5 of 14 |
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
516
+142 (+38%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 735
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 516 | 29 | 17.8:1 | 49% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 483 | 28.4 | 17.0:1 | 50% (242) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 28.5 | 16.2:1 | 47% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 25 | 15.0:1 | 38% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 28.7 | 14.7:1 | 29% (123) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 72% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 353 | 27 | 13.1:1 | 69% (242) |
| 2000-01 | 435 | 25 | 17.4:1 | 44% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 735 | 36 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in SHERWOOD, Arkansas, administered by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 516 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Arkansas enroll around 418, and this school is 23% bigger than that mark.
PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 12,586 students in its 26 schools, and SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
Black students account for 45% of enrollment at SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other students are 36% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Pulaski County residents are about 37% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
Staffing at SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.8:1. The school's 17.8:1 compares with an average of 16.0:1 for elementary schools in Arkansas. On the income side, 49% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 71% average among public schools in Pulaski County.
On the allk12 Grade, SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 44% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 41.7%. It scores 39.1%, 2.6 points below that figure.
The county, Pulaski County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $62,873 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Pulaski County has 133 public schools.
The closest school to SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 9 nearby schools, at 39.1% versus a 29.6% average.
The federal government classifies SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net gain of 142 students, or 38%. By 2024-25, the school had 17.8 students per teacher, compared with 15.0 in 2020-21.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 students
Other schools in SHERWOOD
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 424 students
Nearby schools
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,120
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 721
- OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 408
- INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 398
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 424
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 586
Frequently asked questions
About SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 516 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 36% White, 7% Hispanic, 45% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.