Summary:
The Hackett School District is served by a single elementary school, Hackett Elementary School, which educates students from Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade with a total enrollment of 474 students.
Hackett Elementary School has a 1-star rating and ranks in the bottom third of Arkansas elementary schools, with its ranking percentile fluctuating between the 24th and 32nd percentile over the last three years. The school trails the state average in every core subject for the 2025-2026 school year, with 27% of students proficient in English Language Arts (state: 39.4%), 29.3% in Reading (state: 40.4%), 33.2% in Math (state: 44.1%), and 37.5% in Science (state: 44%). The school has a 100% free/reduced lunch rate, indicating that the entire student body comes from low-income households, and spends $11,695 per student with a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
The most striking finding is a dramatic drop in performance between 4th and 5th grade. In the 2025-2026 school year, 4th graders outperformed the state average in Science (52% vs. 44.4%) and were competitive in ELA (42.5% vs. 41.4%). However, the same cohort of students in 5th grade saw proficiency rates plummet to roughly half the state average, with only 12.7% proficient in ELA and 18.2% in Science. This suggests a potential systemic issue with the 5th-grade curriculum or instruction. While the 4th-grade science scores are a bright spot, the overall school science proficiency gap to the state average widened from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, indicating the rest of the state is improving faster. The school's overall low ranking is driven almost entirely by the poor performance of its 5th and 6th graders, meaning the "All Grades" average masks a crisis in the upper elementary grades.
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