Fairview Elementary

Set in Maryville, Tennessee, Fairview Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school, run under Blount County. It caters to 323 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Fairview Elementary is one of 21 schools operated by Blount County, a district that caters to 10,270 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Fairview Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Blount County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Blount County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,365, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Fairview Elementary is one of 34 public schools in Blount County (combined enrollment of about 18,257 students).

Nearest neighbor: Foothills Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elementary.

Fairview Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Fairview Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 323).

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