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If you could change one rule at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
560
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050417000155
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3259 HWY 157, JUDSONIA, AR 72081 · (501) 729-4292 · White County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
394 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 71 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (65).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
46.9%
AR avg 34.9% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
57.9%
AR avg 38.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 up about 8 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.9% | 57.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.4% | 49.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 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 WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 560 | 70.4% | 48.8% |
| FOUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUKE | 514 | 68.1% | 31.6% |
| ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL OZARK | 527 | 68.5% | 41.6% |
| H.L. LUBKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALD KNOB | 517 | 66.3% | 34.2% |
| PERRYVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PERRYVILLE | 464 | 69.0% | 36.1% |
| SLOAN-HENDRIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IMBODEN | 456 | 71.3% | 36.4% |
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 WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In White County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #89 of 461 | #2 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #70 of 465 ▲ 37 | #3 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #106 of 465 ▼ 32 | #2 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #102 of 531 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #102 of 480 | #4 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.7% | #421 of 480 | #10 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.4% | #288 of 513 | #5 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.0% | #23 of 138 | 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
560
+46 (+9%) vs 2020
+100% since 1990-91, when it was 280
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 560 | 38.5 | 14.6:1 | 70% (394) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 36.8 | 15.3:1 | 69% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 68% (374) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 60% (308) |
| 2017-18 | 448 | 31.3 | 14.3:1 | 46% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 30 | 14.4:1 | 75% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 70% (296) |
| 2000-01 | 331 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 51% (170) |
| 1990-91 | 280 | 19 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A medium-sized elementary school in JUDSONIA, Arkansas, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment is 560 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 6. Against the 418-student average for elementary schools in Arkansas, enrollment here is 34% higher.
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 2 schools with 930 students.
White students are the large majority at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 92% of enrollment. Next come 6% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 15%.
The school employs the equivalent of 38.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.6:1. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 70%. That rate is above the 60% average among public schools in White County.
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 85% of Arkansas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the top 10% of Arkansas schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 33.7%. The school's actual rate is 48.8%, 15.1 points higher.
County data help place the school in context: in White County, median household income is about $55,249, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 27 public schools in White County.
The closest public school, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within ten miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 9 on average proficiency.
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 560 was 9% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 514.
If you have questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
White County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,838
Census ACS
Median income
$55,249
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
12,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 370 students
Other schools in JUDSONIA
- WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 370 students
- JUDSONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 307 students
Nearby schools
- WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 370
- JUDSONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 307
- BALD KNOB HIGH SCHOOL6.6 mi · 326
- H.L. LUBKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.6 mi · 517
- BALD KNOB MIDDLE SCHOOL6.7 mi · 216
- RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL7.1 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 560 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.6:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 92% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in White County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.