Carter Elementary

Carter Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Knoxville, Tennessee, one of the schools within Knox County. Current enrollment sits at 530 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 93 schools in Knox County (60,185 students total), Carter Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Carter Elementary logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Knox County put median household income runs about $74,222, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Knox County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), of which Carter Elementary is one.

Carter Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Carter Elementary.

Carter Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window.

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