Hanley K-8

As a compact primary school in Memphis, Tennessee, Hanley K-8 educates 358 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; Hanley K-8 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hanley K-8 reports that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Hanley K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Dunbar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hanley K-8.

The school occupies a downtown site.

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