Hemphill Elementary School

As a cozy elementary campus in Birmingham, Alabama, Hemphill Elementary School teaches 353 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Birmingham City. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Birmingham City runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 20,954 students. Hemphill Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hemphill Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hemphill Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hemphill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $66,388, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Hemphill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Princeton School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hemphill Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Hemphill Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 353). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window.

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