Berry Elementary School

Set in Berry, Alabama, Berry Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school, part of Fayette County. It serves 360 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Fayette County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,268 students; Berry Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Berry Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Berry Elementary School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Berry Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fayette County) logs that median household earnings sit near $49,488, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Fayette County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,268 students), Berry Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Berry High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Berry Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 36.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Berry Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 360).

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