WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized elementary-level community, run under LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 202 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 40 schools operated by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 22,320 students overall.

Demographically, WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 34% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Pulaski County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 22.9%; this one comes in at 6.5%, -16.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate median household income runs about $62,873, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

GEYER SPRINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 16.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 39%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 202 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 64% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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