WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a small primary school in WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas, WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 228 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 45% leaner than the state mean of about 418.

WEST MEMPHIS SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,511 students; WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (96%) are Black. By comparison, Crittenden County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Crittenden County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, WEAVER 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 9.2%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Crittenden County shows median household income runs about $55,358, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Crittenden County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students), WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MADDUX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 15.6%.

WEAVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 316 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025.

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