Bessemer City
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Pre-K 108
- Kindergarten 279
- Grade 1 257
- Grade 2 257
- Grade 3 257
- Grade 4 244
- Grade 5 234
- Grade 6 195
- Grade 7 234
- Grade 8 187
- Grade 9 195
- Grade 10 220
- Grade 11 175
- Grade 12 170
By race/ethnicity
- Black or African American 75%
- Hispanic/Latino 22%
- Two or more races 2%
- White 2%
- American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
- Asian <1%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.
Free and reduced-price lunch
- Free lunch 79%
- Reduced-price lunch 0%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.
Spending and revenue
Spending per student
- Instruction $8,623
- Support services $8,539
- Other (food service, etc.) $1,147
Where the money comes from
- Local 25%
- State 45%
- Federal 30%
Total revenue $65.5 milliontotal spending $62.5 million
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.
District details
Grades served
PK to 12
Locale (NCES)
Suburb: Large
Total staff (FTE)
322
District office
1621 5th Ave N, Bessemer AL 35020
Phone
County
Jefferson County
Official website
NCES District ID
100330
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About Bessemer City
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.