NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools AR

Best-Resourced Schools in El Dorado, AR

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8 public K-12 schools in El Dorado from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
4,768
Students
44/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, El Dorado has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. El Dorado sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

El Dorado's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

86.8% of enrollment in reporting El Dorado schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 20-point gap between Parkers Chapel High School and Yocum Elementary School shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
65th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

El Dorado High School accounts for 25.9% of all El Dorado public-school enrollment

That concentration means El Dorado-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

El Dorado school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

El Dorado school enrollment ranges from 356 students (lowest) to 1,235 students (highest), a spread of 879 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

El Dorado reports 86.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

El Dorado student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Parkers Chapel High School 58
2. Washington Middle School 48
3. Parkers Chapel Elem. School 46
4. Barton Jr. High School 44
5. Hugh Goodwin Elementary School 41
6. El Dorado High School 39
7. Yocum Elementary School 38
8. Northwest Elementary School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in El Dorado

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 El Dorado High School 64.7/100
  2. 2 Northwest Elementary School 64.2/100
  3. 3 Barton Jr. High School 63.6/100
  4. 4 Washington Middle School 63.0/100
  5. 5 Hugh Goodwin Elementary School 61.6/100

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Which El Dorado school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Parkers Chapel High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the El Dorado schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in El Dorado, AR? ▼

El Dorado has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,768 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.