WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 3259 HWY 157, in JUDSONIA, Arkansas, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary school that instructs 560 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 34% above that benchmark.

WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 930 students; WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above White County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of +14.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for White County indicate median household income runs about $55,249, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across White County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,342 students), WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHITE COUNTY CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 25%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 92% across the same window.

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