Benny C. Bills Elementary School

Benny C. Bills Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Gallatin, Tennessee, part of Sumner County, educateing 659 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% bigger than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Sumner County comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 30,719 students; Benny C. Bills Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Benny C. Bills Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Black, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sumner County) shows that median household income runs about $90,301, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Sumner County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,719 students), Benny C. Bills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Joe Shafer Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 779 students in 2018 compared to 659 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 57% to 43% over that span.

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