Government directory/Arkansas/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 178094

Little Rock School District.

Independent school district in Arkansas · Census county area: Pulaski.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

21,105students in the finance record
38operating schools connected
$17,548current spending per pupil
Who runs this Arkansas school system

Jermall Wright is the state-published superintendent.

The statewide directory also names the people responsible for public finance, safety, civil-rights access, special education, nutrition, family services, technology, and public information. Those useful contacts appear first. The source does not publish the school-board roster, so Election.org does not pass administrators off as board members.

Named contacts
22
Mapped board zones
7
Exact state ID
6001000
District leadership

Jermall Wright

Superintendent

District phone501-447-1000 x 1002810 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR, 72201
Who to contact

People responsible for the services families use.

21 current-directory contacts
District leadership

Amy Cooper

Assistant Superintendent

District leadership

Karen Bradshaw

Assistant Superintendent

District leadership

Melissa Gude

Assistant Superintendent

District leadership

Shana Loring

Assistant Superintendent

District leadership · Civil rights and access

Shawn Burgess

Assistant Superintendent · Title IX

Public finance

Kelsey Bailey

Treasurer

Public finance

Jacqueline Rowlett

Business manager

Public information

Pamela Smith

Public information

Safety and access

William Elamin

School Safety Coordinator

Student and family services

Carla Lester

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services

Cassandra Steele

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services

Deborah Papineau

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services · Civil rights and access

Janice Lehmann

Special education & early childhood · Section 504 access

Student and family services

Sophia Williams

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services

Thelma Jasper

Special education & early childhood

Student and family services

Lajuana Rainey

Family engagement

Student and family services

Caressa Hairston

Students experiencing homelessness · Foster-care liaison

Civil rights and access

Kimberley Eason

Title IX

Student and family services

Stephanie Walker Hynes

Child nutrition

Student and family services

Mary Hart

Child nutrition

District operations

John Ruffins

Technology Coordinator

How board seats are organized

The state publishes 7 mapped board zones for this district.

These are official election-zone records, not attendance zones. Population values are the source's 2020 Census field where published.

The board roster is still missing

Named administrators are not a substitute for elected governance.

  • Current board-member names, officer roles, seat numbers, terms, and vacancies
  • The exact at-large or zoned election plan when the GIS layer returns no zones
  • Upcoming filings and candidates, certified result history, and campaign disclosures
  • Normalized meetings, agendas, minutes, votes, policies, contracts, vendors, and decision history

Source: Arkansas Department of Education School Personnel Directory and Arkansas Secretary of State school-board zones via the Arkansas GIS Office, checked 2026-08-30. Election.org omits every person-level email, phone, fax, and street address from the personnel export; only district-level contact fields are retained. A dated directory row is not proof of continued service after the snapshot.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment21,1059.7% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$17,54812.4% higher than 2019 after inflation · 37.9% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$506.8M29.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$402.1M58.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 23,368; 2020: 23,237; 2021: 21,612; 2022: 22,054; 2023: 21,456; 2024: 21,10523,68522,23720,788201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $15,611; 2020: $15,347; 2021: $16,193; 2022: $15,646; 2023: $16,430; 2024: $17,548$17,856$16,447$15,039201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201912.8% F69.5% S17.8% L
202011.7% F70.8% S17.5% L
202116.6% F66.4% S17.0% L
202220.7% F62.5% S16.8% L
202319.6% F62.2% S18.2% L
202415.8% F64.9% S19.3% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
201923,368$12,723$320,691,000$392,115,000$254,066,000
202023,237$12,662$318,372,000$363,365,000$267,101,000
202121,612$13,988$344,534,000$334,449,000$283,070,000
202222,054$14,597$366,581,000$352,571,000$410,825,000
202321,456$15,959$378,970,000$447,878,000$419,766,000
202421,105$17,548$396,573,000$506,789,000$402,053,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$397M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal15.8%$62.6M
State64.9%$257M
Local19.3%$76.5M
Total expenditures$507M
Current spending$374M
Instruction$196M
Support services$158M
Capital outlay$118M
Debt outstanding$402M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address810 WEST MARKHAM ST, LITTLE ROCK, AR, 72201
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current board members, officer roles, exact seat numbers, term expirations, present vacancies, and appointment history
  • The next election, filings and candidates, certified result history, and campaign disclosures
  • Address-level lookup against the published school-board-zone polygons and the separate attendance boundary
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
178094
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address810 W. MARKHAM STREET · LITTLE ROCK, AR · 72201
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaPulaski

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment21,4562023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The current Arkansas personnel directory reports the superintendent and student-service roles shown above; the separate Secretary of State GIS layer reports the mapped school-board zones returned for this exact LEA ID.

Not established by these records

  • That administrators are school-board members, or that a person remains in the directory role after the dated snapshot.
  • The current board roster, terms, vacancies, election calendar, candidates, results, meeting votes, contracts, or—when no zones are returned—a proven at-large voting plan.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.