Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus

Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus operates as a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 241 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 13% Black, 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Shelby County put median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus is one.

The closest other public school is Newberry Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus operates from an urban location. Compass Community School Hickory Hill Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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