Camden Jr High School

Camden Jr High School is one of the modestly sized intermediate schools in Camden, Tennessee, part of Benton County, with 373 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 554.

Benton County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,150 students. Camden Jr High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Camden Jr High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $51,746 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Benton County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,150 students), of which Camden Jr High School is one.

Camden Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Camden Jr High School.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Camden Jr High School's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 373).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.