Arkansas ATLAS · three-year trends for every school and district
School

Cato Elementary School

Pulaski County Special School District · Pulaski County · Pulaski County Schools · Grades K-5
Enrollment
266
2025-26
Free/Reduced lunch
60.4%
2024-25 — most recent published · CEP district, compare with care
English learners
3.0%
2025-26 · MSI
Special education
16.9%
2025-26 · MSI
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Spring 2026 figures are Pre-Appeals. ADE has not yet run the appeals and corrections cycle for this release, so these numbers can still change. At this stage ADE's statewide total also runs slightly above the sum of its own districts (between +0.006% and +0.184% depending on the subject), because some test records are not yet attributed to a school. Spring 2024 and Spring 2025, both final releases, reconcile exactly. How we handle this.

Three-year trajectory

Where students landed

The headline number only counts Levels 3 and 4. Movement from Level 1 to Level 2 is real progress that the headline hides, so the full distribution is shown. Above each bar, ▲ is the share ready or exceeding (Levels 3–4); below it, ▼ is the share in need of support or close (Levels 1–2).

Compared with

Every figure below is ADE's own published figure for that grain — not a total we computed by adding up schools.

Position statewide

The whole distribution, with this school marked. We report a quartile band rather than a precise rank: across a field this tight, a rank implies a precision the data does not support.

Schools like this one

Comparing a school only with the state average tells you as much about who enrolls there as about what it does. These are the 12 closest schools by economic disadvantage, size, English-learner share, special-education share and grade span.

SubjectThis school, 2026Peer medianDifferencePeers used
ELA48.2%49.0%-0.8pp12
Reading46.7%48.9%-2.2pp12
Math38.7%53.0%-14.3pp12
Science43.1%52.3%-9.2pp12

12 nearest schools in the same grade-span band, by rank-normalized distance over economically-disadvantaged % (MSI), log enrollment (SIS), English-learner % (MSI) and special-education % (MSI), equally weighted. Peer medians are computed, not published by ADE; peers below 30 tested students are excluded and counted above.

Scranton Elementary SchoolScranton School District
56% econ. dis.
241 students
2% EL
16% SPED
Woodlawn Elementary SchoolWoodlawn School District
62% econ. dis.
286 students
2% EL
15% SPED
Carlisle Elementary SchoolCarlisle School District
71% econ. dis.
333 students
4% EL
17% SPED
Bradley Elementary SchoolEmerson-Taylor-Bradley School District
70% econ. dis.
149 students
2% EL
17% SPED
West Fork Elementary SchoolWest Fork School District
60% econ. dis.
239 students
1% EL
17% SPED
Meekins Middle SchoolStuttgart School District
66% econ. dis.
216 students
6% EL
17% SPED
Riverside West Elementary SchoolRiverside School District
67% econ. dis.
261 students
4% EL
15% SPED
Elkins Elementary SchoolElkins School District
55% econ. dis.
288 students
2% EL
15% SPED
Valley Springs Elementary SchoolValley Springs School District
68% econ. dis.
290 students
1% EL
19% SPED
Oak Grove Elementary SchoolParagould School District
69% econ. dis.
284 students
1% EL
18% SPED
Armorel Elementary SchoolArmorel School District
60% econ. dis.
229 students
7% EL
17% SPED
Hardin Elementary SchoolWhite Hall School District
60% econ. dis.
210 students
6% EL
16% SPED