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WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 1800 SW GATOR BOULEVARD, in BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a substantial elementary-level community that works with 671 students (grades K through 4), run under BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 61% bigger than the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.
WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 24 schools operated by BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 19,575 students overall.
On demographics, WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
Looking at school resources, WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 6% of students at WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.2%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of +11.2 points.
Around the school, Benton County reports that median household earnings sit near $93,506, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 57,071 students).
Nearest neighbor: BRIGHT FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.6%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Five-year trend. WILLOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 671). Asian enrollment moved from 19% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.
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Benton County at a glance
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