Highland Park Elementary

Highland Park Elementary operates as a cozy elementary school in Columbia, Tennessee, run under Maury County. Current enrollment sits at 308 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 34% smaller than the state mean of about 470.

Maury County comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,098 students; Highland Park Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Highland Park Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 17% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Maury County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Around the school, Maury County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,130 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highland Park Elementary is one of 24 public schools in Maury County (combined enrollment of about 13,098 students).

The closest other public school is Northfield Academy, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Highland Park Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 46% across the same window.

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