Ketron Elementary School

Ketron Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Kingsport, Tennessee, one of the schools within Sullivan County, educates 508 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Sullivan County runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,878 students. Ketron Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ketron Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest breaks down as 5% Black, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Sullivan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sullivan County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $58,807 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Sullivan County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,066 students), Ketron Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ketron Elementary School has fell 24%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 90% across the same window.

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