Bethel Grove Elementary

Located at 2459 Arlington Ave, in Memphis, Tennessee, Bethel Grove Elementary is a close-knit elementary school that educates 290 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 38% leaner than the state mean of about 470.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; Bethel Grove Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bethel Grove Elementary records that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In the surrounding community, Shelby County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Bethel Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Compass Community School Orange Mound Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bethel Grove Elementary.

Bethel Grove Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bethel Grove Elementary's enrollment has edged up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 265 (now 290).

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