KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary

KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Memphis, Tennessee, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, educateing 381 students in grades K through 5.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary is among them.

On demographics, KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the area at large, Shelby County reports that median household income runs about $63,767, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary is one.

KIPP Memphis Collegiate Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary has shrank 23%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.