Public school / Primary
Mary Mae Jones Elem. School
Bentonville, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 050306000879
- District
- Bentonville School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mary Mae Jones Elem. School is a public primary school in Bentonville, Arkansas, run by Bentonville School District. It enrols 471 students — the 40990th 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
471
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
16.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.0%
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 Bentonville 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.
- 1Bentonville High School3,322 students
- 2Bentonville West High School2,418 students
- 3Grimsley Junior High School887 students
- 4Centerton Gamble Elementary747 students
- 5Washington Junior High School693 students
- 6Creekside Middle School674 students
- 7J William Fulbright Junior High School666 students
- 8Cooper Elementary School656 students
- Enrollment+4.7%
- Teachers0.0%
- Students per teacher+14.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−29.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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