Calhoun Elementary

Calhoun Elementary operates as a compact K-5 school in Calhoun, Tennessee, overseen by McMinn County. Current enrollment sits at 317 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 470.

McMinn County runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,051 students. Calhoun Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Calhoun Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Across the wider county, census data for McMinn County shows median household income runs about $61,470, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McMinn County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,131 students), of which Calhoun Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Charleston Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Calhoun Elementary's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 317).

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