Idlewild Elementary

Idlewild Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Memphis, Tennessee, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, serveing 593 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Idlewild Elementary sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Idlewild Elementary is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that educates 111,979 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Idlewild Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 39% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Shelby County) shows 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%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Idlewild Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Compass Community School Midtown Campus, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Idlewild Elementary.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Idlewild Elementary's enrollment has increased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 593). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 58% to 39% over that span.

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