Douglass Elementary/Middle

Douglass Elementary/Middle is a tight-knit elementary campus in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school instructs 393 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 211 schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools (111,979 students total), Douglass Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Douglass Elementary/Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Douglass Elementary/Middle is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Douglass High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Douglass Elementary/Middle has edged down 10%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 393 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 95% to 90%.

On the community side, the feed for Douglass Elementary/Middle typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.