Enrollment
373
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051311001075
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1002 E 35TH ST, TEXARKANA, AR 71854 · (870) 774-9691 · Miller County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL373 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
373 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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 TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
26.3%
AR avg 34.9% . -0.9pp since 2023
Math
16.5%
AR avg 38.9% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 | 26.3% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.2% | 19.0% |
% 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
23.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (23.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 373 | 100.0% | 23.9% |
| BLYTHEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL BLYTHEVILLE | 343 | 100.0% | N/A |
| COLLEGE HILL HARMONY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY TEXARKANA | 391 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| GLENVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 344 | 100.0% | 12.5% |
| MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 367 | 100.0% | 11.4% |
| ROCKEFELLER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER LITTLE ROCK | 317 | 99.1% | 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 VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Miller County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #354 of 461 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #417 of 465 ▼ 24 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #336 of 465 ▼ 9 | #5 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 373 | #309 of 531 | #4 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #116 of 480 | #5 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.6% | #306 of 480 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #75 of 513 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #159 of 311 | N/A |
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
373
-40 (-10%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 373 | 25.3 | 14.8:1 | 100% (373) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 24.2 | 15.5:1 | 100% (374) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 24.3 | 14.6:1 | 100% (354) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 100% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 24.8 | 17.4:1 | 34% (145) |
| 2015-16 | 401 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 89% (358) |
| 2010-11 | 421 | 25 | 16.8:1 | 86% (363) |
| 2000-01 | 476 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 59% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 593 | 31 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in TEXARKANA, Arkansas. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 373 students.
A total of 8 schools make up TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3,830 students enrolled.
At 80%, Black students outnumber all other groups at VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. The school is also 13% White and 5% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 26%. The chance that two students picked at random at VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 35%.
Federal data list 25.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, higher than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Miller County is 80%.
The model predicts 22.7% for a school in Arkansas with VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 23.9%.
Across Miller County, median household income is about $48,836, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15%, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 16 public schools in Miller County.
PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA is located about 0.6 miles from VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Small, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The student count in 2024-25 was 373, 10% below the 413 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 13.3:1 to 14.8:1.
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Miller County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,360
Census ACS
Median income
$48,836
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
6,217 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,092 students
- ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 842 students
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- COLLEGE HILL HARMONY LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 391 students
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 246 students
- NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOLElementary · 243 students
Other schools in TEXARKANA
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,092 students
- ARKANSAS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 842 students
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- COLLEGE HILL HARMONY LEADERSHIP ACADEMYElementary · 391 students
- GENOA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 365 students
- GARY E. COBB MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 303 students
Nearby schools
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF TEXARKANA0.6 mi · 67
- NORTH HEIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 243
- EDWARD D. TRICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 473
- FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 246
- Spring Lake Park Elementary School1.2 mi · 334
- ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,092
Frequently asked questions
About VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 373 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.8:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 13% White, 2% Hispanic, 80% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
VERA KILPATRICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by TEXARKANA SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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