The top reported proficiency rate is 33% in Science. The lowest is 26% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Edward D. Trice Elementary School
Edward D. Trice Elementary School serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Texarkana, Arkansas, as part of the Texarkana School District. It is a neighborhood elementary school, not a magnet or charter school, and it reports that every one of its enrolled students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a detail that places the school in a context where all families have that support.
The school’s student body is made up largely of two groups: roughly half the students are Black, and roughly two-fifths are White. Smaller shares of students are Hispanic or identify with two or more races. The enrollment is sizable for an elementary school, with a typical class size in the range of a high several dozen to just under a hundred per grade level.
On the 2024-25 Arkansas ATLAS state assessments, Edward D. Trice Elementary shows a pattern that parents will want to look into carefully. In third-grade math, the share of students scoring proficient or above is well under a fifth, which is a low figure. Fourth-grade math is meaningfully higher, reaching about two-fifths proficient. Fifth-grade math sits between those two levels, around three in ten. In English language arts, the results follow a similar upward slope by grade: third graders are at roughly a quarter proficient, fourth graders climb to about a third, and fifth graders reach about two-fifths. Science performance runs close to the English results, with third graders just under three in ten proficient, fourth graders near a third, and fifth graders again at about two-fifths. The overall proficiency index for the school, which averages performance across all tested subjects and grades, places it below the midpoint among the districts in Miller County.
Because the data does not include breakdowns by student group, it is not possible to see from these figures alone how performance varies within the school. The district brief, meanwhile, turned up little of lasting impact in terms of recent changes, so a parent looking for recent strategic shifts at the district level will find little to go on here.
The school sits in Texarkana, a mid-sized border city whose main street, State Line Avenue, runs directly along the Arkansas-Texas divide. The city has a historic downtown with museums and a federal building that straddles both states. The local economy draws on the Red River Army Depot, health care, manufacturing, and transport. Housing values in the area are below the national typical, and they are also below the state typical. Rent is estimated to take a moderate slice of a typical household income, and a mortgage payment at prevailing rates is reported to be below the typical rent, a pattern that suggests buying could be more affordable than renting for many households, though individual circumstances vary widely.
A parent considering Edward D. Trice Elementary should weigh the academic performance data, which shows that while some grade levels reach moderate levels of proficiency, the third-grade math and English results are low enough to ask what kind of early intervention or support is available. The school serves a population that is economically uniform by the measure of meal qualification, and it reflects the broader racial and ethnic mix of the city. For a family looking at this school, the next step would be to talk with the school about how it addresses its early-grade performance and what resources it offers to students who are behind.
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