Belle Forest Community School

Belle Forest Community School is one of the well-populated elementary-level communitys in Memphis, Tennessee, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, with 1,027 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 119% larger than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Belle Forest Community School is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that instructs 111,979 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belle Forest Community School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Shelby County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Belle Forest Community School is one campus in the mix.

Ridgeway Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belle Forest Community School has ticked down 16%, going from 1,219 students in 2018 to 1,027 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 14% to 21%.

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