EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small primary school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, operated by WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 199 students, covering grades K through 1. Enrollment runs roughly 52% leaner than the state mean of about 418.

WATSON CHAPEL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,552 students; EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). The remainder consists of 12% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) records that median household earnings sit near $51,096, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Jefferson County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students), of which EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. EDGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 41% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 199).

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