LEAD Southeast

Set in Nashville, Tennessee, LEAD Southeast is a medium-sized senior high, one of the schools within Davidson County. It enrolls 833 students across grades 5 through 12.

Davidson County runs 160 schools in total, collectively educating 81,532 students. LEAD Southeast is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LEAD Southeast records that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder reads as 22% White, 13% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Davidson County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Davidson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,853 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Davidson County's 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), LEAD Southeast is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Paragon Mills Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site. LEAD Southeast operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 35%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 833 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 41% to 56%.

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