Armorel Elementary School, Armorel AR

Original Research by School Decision on Armorel Elementary School

Armorel Elementary School serves one of the smallest, most rural communities in Mississippi County, Arkansas. The town of Armorel was founded as a company town for a lumber operation and today remains an unincorporated place with a very small population and a land area of mostly farms and forests. The elementary school is part of the Armorel School District, the same system that feeds into Armorel High School, and the school buildings likely function as a central civic fixture in a place that has no traditional downtown.

This is a kindergarten-through-sixth-grade building with an enrollment that is small for a public elementary school. The student body is predominantly white, with Black and Hispanic students each making up a relatively small share of the population. About half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a marker of the community's modest economic base. The school does not report counts for students with disabilities or English learners in the available data, so a parent would want to ask the school directly about how those populations are served.

On state testing in the most recent assessment year, the picture is mixed and varies noticeably by grade. In math, proficiency rates among tested students ranged from below-average, with a particularly low result in one grade, up to a solidly positive result for sixth graders. English language arts results were more uneven, with one grade hitting a high mark while another showed a much lower proficiency rate. Science results also varied. Overall, when combining all subjects and grades, the school's composite proficiency index lands above the midpoint among the seven districts in Mississippi County.

Because this school ends at sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report here. That metric applies to the high school, not to this building.

The community context is important for understanding what this school offers. Armorel's population has grown slowly over recent decades from a very small base. Residents are classified entirely as rural. Housing costs and rents are not available in the data, but given the area's agricultural character and the share of students receiving meal assistance, this is not a high-cost market. The nearest larger town is Blytheville, and families likely look there for shopping, services, and some civic amenities.

The district brief turned up no recent major changes such as boundary shifts, new leadership, or program overhauls. That can mean stability, or it can simply mean a small rural district with no recent news that would be captured in standard public records. A parent moving into the area would want to visit the campus and ask about class sizes, enrichment offerings for the elementary grades, and what the transition looks like when students move up to the district's middle and high school grades.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 54%

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 442%

School 42% · District 42%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 656%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 19 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 30 pts above state median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 11 pts above state median

Science

Grade 344%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 433%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 48%

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 650%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 17 pts above state median

This schoolARMOREL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income50%27 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income24%Higher-income46%23 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income21%Higher-income27%5 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income42%3 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income54%5 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income64%Higher-income67%2 pp gap