Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BESSEMER CITY·NCES 010033000082
Greenwood Elementary School
5012 Roselyn Road Southeast, Bessemer, AL 35022 · (205) 432-3201 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Alabama public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
208 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Greenwood Elementary School→Bessemer City Middle School
Based on grade levels within Bessemer City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
44.4%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
13.3%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Greenwood Elementary School
Greenwood Elementary School's state test result (26.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood Elementary School this school | 290 | 71.7% | 26.3% |
| Crestmont Elementary School Northport | 268 | 74.6% | 31.3% |
| Loachapoka Elementary School Loachapoka | 332 | 75.9% | 28.8% |
| Highland Avenue Elementary School Montgomery | 453 | 78.8% | 14.3% |
| Inglenook School Birmingham | 312 | 79.2% | 17.7% |
| Tarrant Elementary School Tarrant | 307 | 76.9% | N/A |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Greenwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #550 of 626 | #70 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #577 of 626 | #73 of 89 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #509 of 626 | #57 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #577 of 709 | #83 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #644 of 655 | #90 of 93 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #239 of 658 | #28 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.7% | #191 of 696 | #41 of 96 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.7% | #107 of 262 | #12 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
290
+34 (+13%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 290 | 13 | 22.3:1 | 72% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 14 | 21.1:1 | 76% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 16 | 17.9:1 | 77% (219) |
| 2020-21 | 256 | 15 | 17.1:1 | 81% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 255 | 16.5 | 15.4:1 | 81% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 18 | 16.3:1 | 63% (185) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 30 | 12.1:1 | 93% (337) |
| 2000-01 | 356 | 25 | 14.2:1 | 55% (195) |
| 1990-91 | 413 | 23 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Greenwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (255 to 290); teachers down 21% (16.5 to 13).
About Greenwood Elementary School
Families in Bessemer, Alabama, are served by Greenwood Elementary School, a small elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 290 students. Elementary schools in Alabama have about 480 students on average; enrollment here is 40% lower.
Bessemer City serves 3,012 students across 7 schools.
Black students are 55% of those enrolled at Greenwood Elementary School. The remaining shares are 38% Hispanic, 4% White, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Jefferson County's population at about 42%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
On staff are 13 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 22.3:1. Elementary schools in Alabama average 17.0:1, 5.3 fewer students per teacher than here. Greenwood Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 72%. That is higher than the 52% average for public schools in Jefferson County.
Greenwood Elementary School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of Alabama public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Greenwood Elementary School is -5.6 points: 26.3% actual, 31.9% predicted.
For Jefferson County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $66,388, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 181 public schools in the county, enrolling about 97,401, Greenwood Elementary School among them.
About 2.6 miles separate Greenwood Elementary School from the closest public school, Brocks Gap Intermediate School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Greenwood Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 26.3% against a local average of 31.3%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 290 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 256. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.1:1 to 22.3:1.
On allk12, people connected to Greenwood Elementary School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
667,755
Census ACS
Median income
$66,388
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
181
97,401 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bessemer City
- Bessemer City High SchoolHigh · 760 students
- Bessemer City Middle SchoolMiddle · 616 students
- Jonesboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Charles F Hard Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Westhills Elementary SchoolElementary · 277 students
- Abrams Elementary SchoolElementary · 231 students
Other schools in Bessemer
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 777 students
- Bessemer City High SchoolHigh · 760 students
- McCalla Elementary SchoolElementary · 752 students
- Bessemer City Middle SchoolMiddle · 616 students
- Oak Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Jonesboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
Other Greenwood Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 21 states are named Greenwood Elementary. Greenwood Elementary School is the 22nd largest of the 27.
- Greenwood Elementary SchoolMIDLAND, TX · 829 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYPLYMOUTH, MN · 762 students
- Greenwood ElementaryMontebello, CA · 746 students
- Greenwood ElementaryGlen Allen, VA · 649 students
- Greenwood ElementarySanford, NC · 571 students
Nearby schools
- Brocks Gap Intermediate School2.6 mi · 521
- South Shades Crest Elementary School3.2 mi · 534
- Jonesboro Elementary School3.4 mi · 474
- McCalla Elementary School3.4 mi · 752
- Bessemer City Middle School3.8 mi · 616
- McAdory High School3.9 mi · 1,259
Frequently asked questions
About Greenwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Greenwood Elementary School?
Greenwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 290 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Greenwood Elementary School serve?
Greenwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Greenwood Elementary School?
Approximately 22.3:1 students per teacher at Greenwood Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Greenwood Elementary School?
At Greenwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 38% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Greenwood Elementary School public or private?
Greenwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bessemer City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.