Summary:
The Pine Bluff School District in Arkansas consists of 7 schools, including 5 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school, serving students from pre-K through 12th grade. The district faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance and high levels of economic disadvantage among the student population.
Within the district, a few schools stand out. Southwood Elementary School has the highest proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Reading, and Mathematics across multiple grade levels, as well as the highest overall school ranking. Matthews Elementary School also performs relatively well, with above-average proficiency rates in several subject areas. However, the district's lone high school, Pine Bluff High School, has very low proficiency rates, with only 8.6% of students proficient in English Language Arts and 1.5% proficient in Geometry.
The data reveals that proficiency rates across the district are extremely low, with most schools scoring well below the state averages in English Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, and Science. Additionally, all of the schools in the district have very high rates of free and reduced-price lunch recipients, ranging from 98.43% to 100%, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The per-student spending ranges from $10,713 to $14,277, which is above the state average, but the student-teacher ratios vary widely, from 10.5 at Pine Bluff High School to 16.6 at Thirty-Fourth Street Elementary, suggesting potential issues with resource allocation within the district.
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