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What's something UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 382 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051044000060
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS
3901 AGGIE RD., JONESBORO, AR 72404 · (870) 336-4700 · Craighead County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
16.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
400 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 151 | 31% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 99 | 20% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
22.3%
AR avg 34.9% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
21.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.3% | 21.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.9% | 24.3% |
% 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
22.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.6%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS's state test result (22.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS this school | 491 | 81.5% | 22.0% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JONESBORO | 446 | 80.5% | N/A |
| MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL MARION | 654 | 81.8% | 19.6% |
| FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA JONESBORO | 440 | 86.6% | 19.0% |
| WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 586 | 72.9% | 22.7% |
| FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARY JONESBORO | 394 | 82.0% | N/A |
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 UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Craighead County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #373 of 461 | #11 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #383 of 465 ▼ 37 | #11 of 14 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #372 of 465 ▲ 7 | #11 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #167 of 531 | #10 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #271 of 480 | #13 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #49 of 480 | #2 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.5% | #194 of 513 | #10 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.3% | #37 of 138 | #2 of 9 |
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
491
+107 (+28%) vs 2020
+31% since 2000-01, when it was 375
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 491 | 29.6 | 16.6:1 | 81% (400) |
| 2023-24 | 398 | 27.6 | 14.4:1 | 100% (398) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 29.9 | 13.3:1 | 100% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | 29 | 13.2:1 | 100% (384) |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 32.8 | 12.7:1 | 33% (137) |
| 2015-16 | 418 | 33 | 12.7:1 | 72% (299) |
| 2010-11 | 394 | 29 | 13.6:1 | 64% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 375 | 24 | 15.6:1 | 36% (134) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS.
About UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is a medium-sized elementary school in JONESBORO, Arkansas. Enrolled students number 491 students, in grades 3 through 6.
NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 8 schools with 3,910 students in all.
Black students are the largest group at UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS, with 49% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 25% White, 17% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. The school's Black share is 32 points above the 17% share among Craighead County residents. By the diversity index, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS comes in at 66%.
The school employs the equivalent of 29.6 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 16.6:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 16.0:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 81%. For comparison, public schools in Craighead County average 67%.
The allk12 Grade for UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is C-. Compared with Arkansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 16% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is 29.6%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 22.0%.
In the county around the school, Craighead County, median household income is about $59,548, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. A total of 37 public schools operate in Craighead County, serving about 20,332 students.
The school nearest to UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS ranks 6th of 7 on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 384 to 491. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 16.6:1, from 13.2:1.
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Craighead County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,249
Census ACS
Median income
$59,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
20,332 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,054 students
- NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 566 students
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 446 students
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIAElementary · 440 students
- FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARYElementary · 394 students
- NETTLETON STEAM INTERMEDIATEElementary · 313 students
Other schools in JONESBORO
- THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,505 students
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,054 students
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 756 students
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNETElementary · 731 students
Nearby schools
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 446
- NETTLETON STEAM INTERMEDIATE2.0 mi · 313
- NETTLETON STEAM ELEMENTARY2.1 mi · 206
- NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 566
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 1,054
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET2.5 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTSHow many students attend UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS?
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS enrolls approximately 491 students in grades 03-06.
What age range does UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS serve?
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS serves students from grade 03 through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is approximately 16.6:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS?
At UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS, the student body is approximately 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 49% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS public or private?
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NETTLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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