Caldwell-Guthrie

Caldwell-Guthrie is a small K-5 school in Memphis, Tennessee, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school works with 280 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Caldwell-Guthrie is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Caldwell-Guthrie lists that nearly all students (98%) are Black. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shelby County shows median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Caldwell-Guthrie is one.

The closest other public school is Memphis Scholars Caldwell-Guthrie, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Caldwell-Guthrie operates from an inner-city location.

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