Leflore Legacy Academy

As an intimate middle-grades school in Greenwood, Mississippi, Leflore Legacy Academy works with 203 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by LEFLORE LEGACY ACADEMY. Compared to the state average of about 452 students per school, that is 55% below typical.

Leflore Legacy Academy sits inside LEFLORE LEGACY ACADEMY, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Leflore Legacy Academy shows that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 30% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly less Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Leflore County indicate the typical household earns roughly $35,277 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 28%. Across Leflore County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,921 students), Leflore Legacy Academy is one campus in the mix.

Davis Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site. Leflore Legacy Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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