Summary:
The Blevins School District is served by a single elementary school, Randy Hughes Elementary School, a small rural school in Arkansas serving 196 students from Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade.
Randy Hughes Elementary School faces significant academic challenges, with a very high rate of economic disadvantage—89.29% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school consistently ranks in the bottom 5-15% of Arkansas elementary schools, with its most recent ranking dropping to 466th out of 491 schools (5th percentile). Overall proficiency rates are well below state averages: 17.1% in English Language Arts (state: 39.4%), 19.3% in Reading (state: 40.4%), 15.9% in Mathematics (state: 44.1%), and 17.1% in Science (state: 44.0%). Despite these low scores, the school spends a notable $13,209 per student and maintains a low student-teacher ratio of 12.9:1, suggesting that funding and class size are not the primary barriers to improvement.
There are some positive trends, as the school showed meaningful improvement in English Language Arts (+5 points) and Reading (+7.2 points) from the previous year. However, this was offset by a dramatic 12.4 percentage point drop in Mathematics proficiency and a 3.1 point decline in Science. Grade-level performance varies widely: 3rd grade outperformed others with 27.8% proficient in ELA, while 4th grade was the weakest with only 4.8% proficient in ELA and 9.5% in Reading and Science. The school's state ranking also fell sharply from the 15th percentile to the 5th percentile, indicating that while some scores improved, other schools across Arkansas improved at a much faster rate. This data points to a need for targeted, data-driven strategies to address specific weaknesses in math and science instruction, particularly in 4th and 6th grades.
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