Brick Church: A LEAD Public School

Brick Church: A LEAD Public School is one of the small junior highs in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by Achievement School District, with 249 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 55% smaller than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 554 students.

Achievement School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 5,309 students; Brick Church: A LEAD Public School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brick Church: A LEAD Public School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. The state averages about 18.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Davidson County shows median household income runs about $77,853, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Davidson County runs 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), of which Brick Church: A LEAD Public School is one.

The closest other public school is Brick Church Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Brick Church: A LEAD Public School operates from an inner-city location. Brick Church: A LEAD Public School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count declined 24%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 10% to 15%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2024.

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