TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 401 N WILLOW, in TRUMANN, Arkansas, TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized K-5 school that educates 477 students (grades K through 3), run under TRUMANN SCHOOL DISTRICT.

TRUMANN SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,507 students. TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Poinsett County (around 91%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -7.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Poinsett County) records that the typical household earns roughly $46,707 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Poinsett County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,732 students), of which TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

TRUMANN PREK AND PARENT CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. TRUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 713 (now 477). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 75% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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