Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Cave City Elementary School, Cave City, AR

Cave City Elementary School is a public elementary school in Cave City, part of Cave City School District. It enrolled 605 students in 2024-25, with 15.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "CAVE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 605
Teachers (FTE): 39.0
Students per teacher: 15.5
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 5.7 higher than the district figure of 9.8. The Arkansas average across schools is 12.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.5

District9.8

Arkansas12.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 711 N. Main, Cave City, AR 72521
Phone: (870)283-5393
District: Cave City School District
County: Sharp County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 050405000147

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 331
Reduced-price lunch: 126
Free or reduced-price lunch: 45775.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 131Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.