YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in EL DORADO, Arkansas, YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized primary school, one of the schools within EL DORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 580 students across grades K through 4. That puts it 39% above the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

EL DORADO SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,921 students; YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Union County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the broader community, Union County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,259 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 15 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 6,933 students).

BARTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.5%.

YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 4%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 580 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 27% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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