Germanshire Elementary

As a heavily attended elementary-level community in Germantown, Tennessee, Germanshire Elementary teaches 725 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Germanshire Elementary sits 54% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Germanshire Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Germanshire Elementary records that nearly all students (80%) are Black. Other groups include 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Zooming out to the county, Shelby County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Germanshire Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bluff City High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Germanshire Elementary.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 852 students in 2018 compared to 725 in 2025.

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