Bessemer Elementary

Located at 918 Huffine Mill Road, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Bessemer Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school that enrolls 509 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Guilford County Schools.

Bessemer Elementary is one of 123 schools operated by Guilford County Schools, a district that educates 68,535 students overall.

On demographics, Bessemer Elementary reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Bessemer Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Guilford County (around 89%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bessemer Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.5%; this one comes in at 29.4%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Guilford County) records that the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Bessemer Elementary is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

Gateway Education Center 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. On composite proficiency, Bessemer Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bessemer Elementary has ticked up 11%, going from 458 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 68% to 62% over that span.

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