TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary campus in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 328 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 418 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,320 students. TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that Black students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 18.9%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,873, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LISA ACADEMY WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 27.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 27% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 328). Black enrollment moved from 66% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.