Fountain City Elementary

Fountain City Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Knoxville, Tennessee, operated by Knox County, serveing 379 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Knox County runs 93 schools in total, collectively educating 60,185 students. Fountain City Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fountain City Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Knox County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,222 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fountain City Elementary is one of 103 public schools in Knox County (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gresham Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Fountain City Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 21% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Fountain City Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.