The top reported proficiency rate is 80% in Math. The lowest is 71% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Evening Star Elementary School
Evening Star Elementary School serves kindergarten through fourth grade in the Bentonville School District, though its address places it inside the city of Rogers. That matters because a family looking at a Rogers address might assume it feeds into the Rogers district, but Evening Star follows the Bentonville district’s calendar, curriculum, and feeder patterns. The school is located on Pleasant Grove Road, set in the part of rapidly growing northwest Arkansas where the line between Rogers and Bentonville has blurred with new subdivisions and retail centers.
Academically, Evening Star produced strong results on the Arkansas ATLAS assessments, which are the state’s current testing program for elementary grades. In both third and fourth grade, math proficiency stood well above typical levels for the state. English language arts results were also high, with fourth-grade reading and writing scores matching the school’s math performance and third-grade ELA slightly lower but still solid. Science scores for both tested grades were similarly strong. When compared across districts in Benton County, Evening Star’s overall proficiency landed in the top quartile, a notably high position given that Benton County includes several well-regarded districts. The school does not serve grades beyond fourth, so there is no graduation rate to report, and the data did not include chronic absenteeism rates.
The student body is small for an elementary school serving five grade levels. The overwhelming majority of students are white, with Hispanic, two-or-more-races, Asian, Black, and American Indian students each making up small shares. One of the most striking data points is the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which is very low. That figure often correlates with neighborhood affluence, and in this case it aligns with the housing context. Homes in the school’s ZIP code are valued well above the state average, and rents have been rising recently. The economic context in the broader Rogers–Bentonville area is shaped by the presence of Walmart’s global headquarters in neighboring Bentonville, plus a concentration of vendor offices, light manufacturing, and retail. For a family considering a move to the area, the housing market is expensive relative to the rest of Arkansas, and competition for homes in this school’s attendance zone may be high.
The building itself is an elementary campus serving a single grade band, typical of suburban schools in the region. The data did not include information on class sizes, teacher experience, or special education and English learner enrollment, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about staffing ratios and support services. There was no discipline data reported either. The school is not a charter or magnet, and its Title I status was not provided, though the low share of students qualifying for free meals suggests it likely does not receive schoolwide Title I funding.
Rogers as a whole has grown rapidly over the past two decades, adding a second high school and a New Tech high school to keep pace. Evening Star sits within the Bentonville district, which has been under pressure to accommodate its own growth; we looked for recent district developments such as boundary changes or new school openings but found little publicly reported in the available material. A parent moving into the area should confirm the current attendance zone, as growth has prompted adjustments in many northwest Arkansas districts.
For a family that values high test scores and a relatively homogeneous peer environment in an elementary school that feeds into a top-performing district, Evening Star fits that profile. The school’s academic results place it among the strongest in the county. The trade-offs are the cost of housing and the lack of economic diversity in the student body. There is no publicly available information on arts, enrichment, or before-and-after-care programs, so those are questions to raise with the school office.
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