Bethel Springs Elementary

Bethel Springs Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Bethel Springs, Tennessee, overseen by McNairy County. The school teaches 415 students in grades pre-K through 8.

McNairy County runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,733 students. Bethel Springs Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bethel Springs Elementary lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (McNairy County) records that median household income runs about $53,473, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across McNairy County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,733 students), Bethel Springs Elementary is one campus in the mix.

McNairy County Virtual School K-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025.

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