The top reported proficiency rate is 46% in Science. The lowest is 40% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Flippin Elementary School
Flippin Elementary School serves kindergarten through fourth grade in the Flippin School District, a small Ozark Mountain district in north-central Arkansas. The town of Flippin itself has a distinctive manufacturing and residential character, home to several boat manufacturers including Ranger Boats, which was founded here and is credited with introducing the modern bass boat. Tourism from the nearby White River and Bull Shoals Lake shapes the local economy, and the school sits within a compact town where the school district’s three schools are integrated into the civic center rather than on remote campuses.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a very small share of Hispanic or multiracial students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is relatively small for an elementary building, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across kindergarten through fourth grade. Because it serves only early elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and no high school course access data is available here.
On the most recent state assessments, administered through Arkansas’s ATLAS system, proficiency rates varied by grade and subject. In third grade, just under half of students scored at the proficient level in both math and English language arts, and a similar share did so in science. In fourth grade, about a third of students were proficient in math, while just over two-fifths were proficient in English language arts, and about half were proficient in science. Taken together, the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint among the two districts in Marion County. That comparison set is small, so the difference between the top and bottom is narrow, but the school is not at the bottom of the county.
No chronic absenteeism data was available. No information on special education identification rates or English learner enrollment was reported. The school does not appear to have reported participation rates for the assessments, so it is not possible to say whether all enrolled students were tested. A parent may want to ask the school directly about testing participation and about how students with disabilities or other learning needs are served.
The district itself had no significant publicly reported recent changes, such as a leadership turnover, a boundary overhaul, or a major facilities project, that would alter a family’s day-to-day experience. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes that a new elementary school opened for the 2009-30 academic year, but that is not a recent event. For families moving to the area, the housing market offers a median home value that is slightly above the Arkansas statewide benchmark, though below the national figure. The town’s population has been relatively stable to slightly declining in recent decades, and no major new housing developments were mentioned in available records. The community is automobile-dependent, with US 62/67 running through town, and daily life for most residents involves driving.
For a family considering Flippin Elementary, the picture is one of a small, rural elementary school where academic proficiency in the tested grades is mixed but sits above the midpoint of a very small county. The school is the entry point for a district where students will move on to a middle school and then a high school within the same small town. The setting is a compact Ozark town where the economy is anchored by manufacturing and tourism, the housing stock is modestly priced relative to national averages, and the pace of growth has been slow.
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