Cowan Elementary

Cowan Elementary, a low-enrollment K-5 school in Cowan, Tennessee, one of the schools within Franklin County, teaches 260 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 470.

Cowan Elementary is one of 11 schools operated by Franklin County, a district that caters to 4,972 students overall.

On demographics, Cowan Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school records 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,494, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Franklin County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,355 students), of which Cowan Elementary is one.

South Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Cowan Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 262 (now 260). White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window.

On the community side, the feed for Cowan Elementary typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.