Jonesboro Elementary School

Located at 125 Owen Ave, in Bessemer, Alabama, Jonesboro Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community that hosts 474 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Bessemer City.

Within Bessemer City, which oversees 7 schools and 3,012 students, Jonesboro Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Jonesboro Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder comes out to 32% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Jonesboro Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 24.6%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Jonesboro Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Westhills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jonesboro Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Jonesboro Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 628 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 85% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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