Hawkins Mill Elementary

Located at 4295 Mountain Terrace St, in Memphis, Tennessee, Hawkins Mill Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school that teaches 308 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Hawkins Mill Elementary sits 34% below that benchmark.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Hawkins Mill Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hawkins Mill Elementary lists that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Shelby County reports that median household income runs about $63,767, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Hawkins Mill Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Georgian Hills Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hawkins Mill Elementary.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025.

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