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Elementary · Regular · Grades 1 to 2

Nelson Wilks Herron Elementary, Mountain Home, AR

Nelson Wilks Herron Elementary is a public elementary school in Mountain Home, part of Mountain Home School District. It enrolled 559 students in 2024-25, with 17.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "NELSON WILKS HERRON ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
559
Teachers (FTE)
32.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Grades
1 to 2

This school's ratio is 3.2 higher than the district figure of 14.3. The Arkansas average across schools is 12.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.5
District14.3
Arkansas12.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
618 North College, Mountain Home, AR 72653
Phone
(870)425-1251
District
Mountain Home School District
County
Baxter County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
050004300740
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
189
Reduced-price lunch
82
Free or reduced-price lunch
27148.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
85Students 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.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Mountain Home School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.