Cherokee Elementary

Located at 3061 Kimball Ave, in Memphis, Tennessee, Cherokee Elementary is a cozy elementary-level community that serves 321 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Cherokee Elementary sits 32% below that benchmark.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Cherokee Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cherokee Elementary records that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Shelby County put the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Cherokee Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Nearest neighbor: Compass Community School Orange Mound Campus, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 38%: 520 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 4% to 12%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Cherokee Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.