Cornerstone Prep - Lester

Cornerstone Prep - Lester is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, with 354 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 470.

Across the 17 schools in Tennessee Public Charter School Commission (6,979 students total), Cornerstone Prep - Lester accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cornerstone Prep - Lester logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Cornerstone Prep - Lester is one.

The closest other public school is Lester Prep, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cornerstone Prep - Lester.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Cornerstone Prep - Lester runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Cornerstone Prep - Lester typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.