SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school in PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, operated by PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 345 students in grades K through 6.

PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,896 students. SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). The remainder reads as 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 57% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 12.6%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $51,096 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 8,520 students).

FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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