Bryant Park Elementary

Bryant Park Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Birmingham, Alabama, run under Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 707 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% larger than the state mean of about 480.

Across the 55 schools in Jefferson County (35,444 students total), Bryant Park Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Bryant Park Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 8% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Bryant Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bryant Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bryant Park Elementary is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

The closest other public school is Chalkville Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bryant Park Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.6%.

Bryant Park Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

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