Hermitage Springs Elementary School

As an intimate K-5 school in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, Hermitage Springs Elementary School serves 215 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Clay County. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Hermitage Springs Elementary School sits 54% below that benchmark.

Clay County runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,054 students. Hermitage Springs Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hermitage Springs Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Clay County put the typical household earns roughly $39,972 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clay County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,054 students), Hermitage Springs Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Red Boiling Springs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 215 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 4% to 13% over that span.

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