Schools · Gentry

Gentry, AR schools

Gentry’s public schools score above Arkansas’s averages: 41% of students are proficient in reading against 36.8% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88.6%. Kids attend GENTRY PRIMARY SCHOOL through grade 2, then GENTRY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

BSchool Grade #47Best schools in AR (of 113)#79Highest graduation rate in AR (of 115)

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Gentry’s School Grade: B

The public schools Gentry’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 56% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

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Arkansas school districts we grade (258)Better than 56%

Lower resultsHigher results

Arkansas towns with similar household incomes (189)Better than 50%

High confidence. Built on 943 tested students and a graduating class of 131; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arkansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arkansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arkansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.