Holmes Road Elementary

Located at 1083 E Holmes Rd, in Memphis, Tennessee, Holmes Road Elementary is an expansive K-5 school that instructs 708 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 51% bigger than typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Holmes Road Elementary lists that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,767, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Holmes Road Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

J. P. Freeman Elementary/Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Holmes Road Elementary's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 739 (now 708).

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.