Public school / Primary
Rena Elementary School
Van Buren, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 051341000061
- District
- Van Buren School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Rena Elementary School is a public primary school in Van Buren, Arkansas, run by Van Buren School District. It enrols 439 students — the 45414th 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
439
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
20.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
42.6%
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 Van Buren 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.
- 1Van Buren High School1,228 students
- 2Northridge Middle School753 students
- 3Butterfield Junior High School613 students
- 4J. J. Izard Elementary School479 students
- 5Oliver Springs Elementary School476 students
- 6Van Buren Freshman Academy462 students
- 7James R. Tate Elem. School457 students
- 8King Elementary School443 students
- Enrollment−2.4%
- Teachers−27.6%
- Students per teacher+47.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−37.3%
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