📍 2400 7th Avenue North, Bessemer, Jefferson County, 35020
Empower Community School is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Bessemer, Jefferson County. The school has 139 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Empower Community School school district. It serves grades K–7 in a suburban setting. It operates as a public charter school.
Empower Community School enrolls 139 students across grades K–7. The student body is 56% male and 44% female.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 86% Black or African American, 12% Hispanic or Latino and 2.2% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 119 | 86% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 17 | 12% |
| White | 3 | 2.2% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
89 of the school's 139 students (64%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Empower Community School is located in a suburban setting (NCES locale: Suburb, Large). It operates as a public charter school. The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district DE-70.
Empower Community School is one of 1 schools in Empower Schools of Alabama, based in Bessemer, Alabama. The district serves 412 students district-wide and employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 139 students, Empower Community School is smaller than the district average of about 412 students per school.
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