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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 357 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000122
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
142 HOLLYWOOD AVENUE, SHERWOOD, AR 72120 · (501) 833-1200 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% 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.
- DBeats 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
15.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
427 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 80 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
24.0%
AR avg 34.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
25.7%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 25.7% |
| 2023-24 | 23.7% | 25.0% |
% 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
22.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (22.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 586 | 72.9% | 22.7% |
| ACADEMIES OF MATH AND SCIENCE SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 486 | 70.2% | 16.9% |
| ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 609 | 78.3% | 25.1% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTS JONESBORO | 491 | 81.5% | 22.0% |
| MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL MARION | 654 | 81.8% | 19.6% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JONESBORO | 446 | 80.5% | N/A |
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 WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #365 of 461 | #30 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #340 of 465 no change | #26 of 63 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #354 of 465 ▲ 13 | #31 of 63 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #81 of 531 | #12 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #140 of 480 | #23 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #164 of 480 | #31 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #263 of 513 | #41 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #131 of 311 | #25 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
586
+56 (+11%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 730
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 586 | 38.8 | 15.1:1 | 73% (427) |
| 2023-24 | 565 | 37.8 | 14.9:1 | 98% (556) |
| 2022-23 | 567 | 36.9 | 15.4:1 | 97% (551) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 100% (530) |
| 2017-18 | 705 | 47.9 | 14.7:1 | 24% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 619 | 37 | 16.7:1 | 65% (401) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 44 | 17.1:1 | 61% (458) |
| 2000-01 | 730 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 47% (341) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in SHERWOOD, Arkansas, reachable at (501) 833-1200. It has an enrollment of 586 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Arkansas, the average enrollment is about 418.
Federal data list 26 schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 12,586 students enrolled.
The largest group at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black students, at 62%. Other groups make up 16% White, 12% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. County-wide, 37% of Pulaski County residents are Black. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1. The gap from the 16.0:1 average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 0.9 students per teacher. At WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 73% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Pulaski County is similar, at 71%.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 13%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Arkansas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 10.1 points below predicted: 22.7% against 32.7%.
Looking at the county, Pulaski County, the median household earns about $62,873 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Pulaski County has 133 public schools with about 64,124 students, including WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Among nearby public schools, OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 0.9 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 33.0% proficiency; WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 22.7%.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 530 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 586.
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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 PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 students
Other schools in SHERWOOD
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
- SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 424 students
Nearby schools
- OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 408
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 424
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 353
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 292
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 654
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 721
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.1:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 16% White, 12% Hispanic, 62% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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