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Bessemer, Alabama - 1 schools
139
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Empower Community School operates 1 public schools serving 139 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alabama. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Jefferson County.
. Demographically, the student body averages 83.6% African American, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Empower Community School, enrolling 201 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Empower Community School accounts for 100.0% of all Empower Community School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Empower Community School a distant remainder — means Empower Community School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Empower Community School has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 61.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Empower Community School has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 139 students.
What is the demographic composition of Empower Community School?
Empower Community School students are 83.6% African American, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.