Brown Upper Elementary School

Brown Upper Elementary School is an intimate elementary school in Springhill, Louisiana, operated by Webster Parish. The school educates 186 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Brown Upper Elementary School sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.

Webster Parish comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 4,967 students; Brown Upper Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Brown Upper Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 31% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Webster Parish as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Brown Upper Elementary School lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at Brown Upper Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Webster Parish runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Brown Upper Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.4%; this one delivers 20.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Webster Parish put the typical household earns roughly $41,182 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Brown Upper Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Webster Parish (combined enrollment of about 4,967 students).

North Webster High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brown Upper Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Brown Upper Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 276 (now 186). The White share of enrollment shrank from 47% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Brown Upper Elementary School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.