Summary:
This analysis examines five elementary schools in the 72756 zip code of Rogers, Arkansas, serving grades PK through 5 and all part of the Rogers School District, a high-performing district ranked in the top 23% of the state.
Reagan Elementary School stands out as the top performer in the area, ranking 201st out of 491 schools statewide (59th percentile) and leading in English Language Arts (46.1% proficient) and Science (44.7% proficient). It also has the lowest percentage of students receiving free/reduced lunch at 58.42%. Joe Mathias Elementary School shows a remarkable upward trend, having improved from a 2-star to a 3-star school, and was the only school in the zip code to exceed district averages in both ELA and Math during the 2024-2025 school year despite a 72.18% free/reduced lunch rate. In contrast, Northside Elementary School is an area of concern, ranking 322nd (34th percentile) with declining scores for three consecutive years, particularly in Math where only 32.8% of students are proficient—20.6 points below the district average. Frank Tillery Elementary School and Grace Hill Elementary School fall in the middle of the pack, with Frank Tillery showing exceptional 5th-grade Math scores (63.5% proficient) and Grace Hill having the highest poverty rate (77.67%) and second-highest spending per student ($11,707) but only middling results.
A key takeaway is that none of these five elementary schools achieved a 4-star rating in the 2025-2026 school year, despite being in a 4-star district, suggesting the district's high rank is driven by other schools. Additionally, Northside has a critical weakness in 4th grade, where proficiency rates across all subjects are dramatically lower than in 3rd and 5th grades, pointing to a specific instructional or cohort issue needing attention.
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