Public school / Primary
Sutton Elementary School
Fort Smith, Arkansas
- NCES ID
- 050633000376
- District
- Fort Smith School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sutton Elementary School is a public primary school in Fort Smith, Arkansas, run by Fort Smith School District. It enrols 470 students — the 41133rd 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
470
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
91.5%
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 Fort Smith 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.
- 1Northside High School2,433 students
- 2Southside High School1,956 students
- 3Dora Kimmons Jr. High School841 students
- 4Ramsey Junior High School832 students
- 5L. A. Chaffin Jr. High School725 students
- 6William O. Darby Jr. High Sch.700 students
- 7Elmer H. Cook Elem. School500 students
- 8John P. Woods Elem. School487 students
- Enrollment+4.4%
- Teachers−3.4%
- Students per teacher+18.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+34.8%
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