Evans Elementary

Located at 4949 Cottonwood Rd, in Memphis, Tennessee, Evans Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that enrolls 485 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Evans Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Evans Elementary logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 35% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate 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%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Evans Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Memphis Merit Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Evans Elementary.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Evans Elementary has declined 6%, going from 516 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 29% to 35% over that span.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.