Downtown Elementary

Downtown Elementary is a K-5 school of roomy scale in Memphis, Tennessee, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, hosting 784 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Downtown Elementary sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Downtown Elementary is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that teaches 111,979 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Downtown Elementary reports that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial, 2% White, 2% 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, 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 the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Downtown Elementary is one.

Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Downtown Elementary's enrollment has rose 20% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 784).

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