Ford Road Elementary

Ford Road Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, with 536 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Ford Road Elementary reports that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shelby County) shows that 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%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Ford Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mitchell High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ford Road Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 536).

On this page, members of the Ford Road Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.