Brown Upper Elementary School

Brown Upper Elementary School is one of the public schools in Springhill, Louisiana. It is a small elementary school. It is open to students in grades 3 through 5 and enrolls 186 students. It has 59% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Louisiana (about 453).

Webster Parish oversees Brown Upper Elementary School and 13 other schools, with 4,967 students in total.

Federal enrollment data show Brown Upper Elementary School is 59% Black. The next largest groups are 31% White, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The school's Black share is 26 points above the 34% share among Webster Parish residents. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at Brown Upper Elementary School are from different groups.

Based on 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, Brown Upper Elementary School has a ratio of 13.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Louisiana is similar, at 14.0:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 88%. Compared with the 73% average for public schools in Webster Parish, the school's rate is higher.

On the allk12 Grade, Brown Upper Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 32% of Louisiana public elementary schools.

Brown Upper Elementary School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (20.7% versus 21.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Louisiana.

American Community Survey estimates for Webster Parish show that the median household earns about $41,182 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 13%, and about 18% of people live in poverty. Webster Parish has 14 public schools with about 4,967 students, including Brown Upper Elementary School.

The closest school to Brown Upper Elementary School is North Webster High School, located about 0.5 miles away. In all, 2 other public schools sit within five miles of Brown Upper Elementary School. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Brown Upper Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.

The NCES locale for Brown Upper Elementary School is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 253 to 186, a 26% decline. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 21.1:1 in 2020-21 to 13.3:1 in 2024-25.

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