Leadership Preparatory Charter School

Located at 4190 Elliston RD, in Memphis, Tennessee, Leadership Preparatory Charter School is a mid-tier elementary-level community that caters to 462 students (grades K through 8), operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Leadership Preparatory Charter School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Leadership Preparatory Charter School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Shelby County) reports that median household earnings sit near $63,767, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Leadership Preparatory Charter School is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

The closest other public school is Willow Oaks Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Leadership Preparatory Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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