Hornsby Elementary

Hornsby Elementary is one of the one-room-style elementary schools in Hornsby, Tennessee, overseen by Hardeman County Schools, with 179 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 62% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Hardeman County Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,157 students; Hornsby Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Hornsby Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest reads as 13% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hardeman County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hardeman County) shows that median household income runs about $46,069, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hardeman County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,157 students), Hornsby Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bolivar Middle School, around 9.7 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Hornsby Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 188 students in 2018 compared to 179 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 79% across the same window.

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