Highland Oaks Elementary

Highland Oaks Elementary is a sizable elementary campus in Memphis, Tennessee, overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school serves 821 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Highland Oaks Elementary sits 75% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Highland Oaks Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Across the wider county, Shelby County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,767, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Highland Oaks Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Oaks Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Oaks Elementary.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Highland Oaks Elementary's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 821). The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 80% to 87% over that span.

On the community side, the feed for Highland Oaks Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.