TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a tiny elementary-level community in FORT SMITH, Arkansas, one of the schools within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 119 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 418.

Within FORT SMITH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 27 schools and 14,164 students, TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder breaks down as 13% Black, 12% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sebastian County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sebastian County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Across the wider county, Sebastian County reports that median household earnings sit near $57,790, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 44 public schools in Sebastian County (combined enrollment of about 20,239 students).

The closest other public school is SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 19.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. TRUSTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 66% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 119). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 45% to 70% over that span.

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