Knoxville Preparatory

Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Preparatory is a tiny junior high, one of the schools within Knox County. It hosts 91 students across grade 6. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 554 students each, so Knoxville Preparatory sits 84% below that benchmark.

Across the 93 schools in Knox County (60,185 students total), Knoxville Preparatory accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Knoxville Preparatory shows that Black students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder is composed of 22% White, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Knox County) records that median household income runs about $74,222, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Knox County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), of which Knoxville Preparatory is one.

The closest other public school is Fulton High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Knoxville Preparatory.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Knoxville Preparatory is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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