Summary:
In zip code 72644, there is one elementary school, Lead Hill Elementary School, which serves grades Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade with 185 students in the Lead Hill School District in Arkansas.
Lead Hill Elementary School presents a unique academic profile with a clear strength in mathematics and a significant challenge in literacy. In the 2025-2026 school year, the school's overall math proficiency rate of 55.6% outperformed the state average of 44.1% by over 11 percentage points, with every tested grade exceeding state benchmarks. However, English Language Arts proficiency was 28.3% (compared to the state's 39.4%) and Reading proficiency was 27.3% (compared to the state's 40.4%), with particularly low scores in 3rd and 4th grades. The school serves an almost universally economically disadvantaged student population, with a free/reduced lunch rate of 98.38%, and has a student-teacher ratio of 16.1 with per-student spending of $14,916.
Despite these challenges, the school has shown impressive year-over-year improvement across all subjects from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, with math scores rising by 13.8 percentage points, ELA by 6.9 points, Reading by 4.9 points, and Science by 7.7 points. This positive trajectory has helped the school improve its state ranking from the 31st percentile in 2023-2024 to the 42nd percentile in 2025-2026, earning it a 2-star rating and ranking 284th out of 491 elementary schools. The school's success in mathematics despite high poverty rates suggests effective instructional strategies in that subject, while the literacy gap indicates a critical area for continued focus and improvement.
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