Claudine Brown Elementary School

Claudine Brown Elementary School is one of the compact elementary schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, part of Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District, with 248 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 44% leaner than typical.

Within Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District, which oversees 12 schools and 3,718 students, Claudine Brown Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Claudine Brown Elementary School logs that nearly all students (92%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Leflore County indicate median household earnings sit near $35,277, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 28% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Leflore County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,921 students), of which Claudine Brown Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Amanda Elzy Junior High School, roughly 2.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Claudine Brown Elementary School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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