Greenwood Middle School

Greenwood Middle School is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in Greenwood, Mississippi, part of Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District. The school enrolls 278 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 452.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Greenwood Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%); the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial. By comparison, Leflore County as a whole is about 74% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Greenwood Middle School shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Leflore County indicate median household earnings sit near $35,277, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 28%. In all, Leflore County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,921 students), of which Greenwood Middle School is one.

Greenwood High School/Votech is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

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