TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 815 N 16TH ST, in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school that works with 343 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT.

FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 14,164 students; TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% White, 13% Black, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Sebastian County's rate of about 65%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 12.0%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sebastian County put the typical household earns roughly $57,790 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Sebastian County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,239 students), of which TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WILLIAM O. DARBY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.9%.

TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TILLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 21%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 62% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.