Public school / Primary
Acorn Elementary School
Mena, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 050007300001
- District
- Ouachita River School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Acorn Elementary School is a public primary school in Mena, Arkansas, run by Ouachita River School District. It enrols 342 students — the 59616th largest of 1,103 public schools in Arkansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
342
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
13.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Ouachita River School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Acorn Elementary School342 students
- 2Acorn High School293 students
- 3Oden Schools164 students
- Enrollment−24.0%
- Teachers−13.8%
- Students per teacher−3.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+9.4%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory