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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900001385
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
75 WESTMINISTER, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72209 · (501) 447-6600 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% 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.
- CBeats 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
17.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
490 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
6
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 | 99 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 34% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
18.8%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.8pp since 2023
Math
25.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.8% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.6% | 29.1% |
% 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
20.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (20.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 493 | 99.4% | 20.2% |
| RIDGE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE ROCK | 516 | 100.0% | 19.3% |
| MABELVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MABELVALE | 369 | 99.2% | 10.7% |
| OTTER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 372 | 99.2% | 18.9% |
| WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 383 | 99.2% | 8.4% |
| LANGSTON ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL HOT SPRINGS | 504 | 100.0% | 17.1% |
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 WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #382 of 461 | #35 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #347 of 465 ▼ 48 | #27 of 63 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #399 of 465 ▼ 14 | #39 of 63 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #163 of 531 | #17 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #301 of 480 | #43 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.9% | #139 of 480 | #24 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #94 of 513 | #14 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #186 of 311 | #31 of 42 |
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
493
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 502
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 493 | 29.1 | 17.0:1 | 99% (490) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 25 | 17.6:1 | 98% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 26.9 | 17.9:1 | 97% (468) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 100% (471) |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 30.4 | 18.3:1 | 33% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 37 | 15.9:1 | 99% (587) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 31 | 18.6:1 | 97% (562) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 16 | 21.6:1 | 76% (262) |
| 1990-91 | 502 | 28 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. Federal data show 493 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 40 schools with 22,320 students.
More than half of enrollment at WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black: 53%. Enrollment also includes 37% Hispanic and 8% White. The school's Black share is 16 points above the 37% share among Pulaski County residents. The diversity index for WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 17.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 29.1. The school's 17.0:1 compares with an average of 16.0:1 for elementary schools in Arkansas. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 99%. That rate is above the 71% average among public schools in Pulaski County.
On the allk12 Grade, WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 21% of Arkansas public elementary schools.
A school with WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Arkansas is predicted to score 22.9%. WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 20.2%, 2.7 points below that line.
The county, Pulaski County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $62,873 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Pulaski County has 133 public schools.
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is THE EXCEL CENTER, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% gain, from 471 to 493.
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Other Wakefield Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Wakefield Elementary. WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- Wakefield ElementaryTurlock, CA · 601 students
- Wakefield ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 520 students
- WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWAKEFIELD, NE · 341 students
- Wakefield Elementary SchoolSHERMAN, TX · 324 students
- Wakefield ElemWakefield, KS · 129 students
Nearby schools
- THE EXCEL CENTER0.6 mi · 348
- EXALT ACADEMY OF SOUTHWEST LITTLE ROCK1.1 mi · 754
- CLOVERDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 655
- GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.2 mi · 273
- GRADUATE ARKANSAS CHARTER HIGH1.4 mi · 557
- BASELINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 493 students in grades KG-05.
Is WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1.
How diverse is WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 8% White, 37% Hispanic, 53% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WAKEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.