Fairmount Elementary

Fairmount Elementary, a tight-knit elementary school in Bristol, Tennessee, one of the schools within Bristol, serves 351 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 470.

Within Bristol, which oversees 9 schools and 4,044 students, Fairmount Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Fairmount Elementary logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Sullivan County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In the area at large, census data for Sullivan County shows median household income runs about $58,807, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sullivan County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,066 students), Fairmount Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bristol Tennessee Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 32%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025.

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