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Lowrance Elementary/Middle
Test scores
TCAP 2024-25 . % On Track or MasteredWhat this means: On the TCAP, Tennessee's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Tennessee schools, those numbers are about 41 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lowrance Elementary/Middle
Lowrance Elementary/Middle, a big elementary campus in Memphis, Tennessee, run under Memphis-Shelby County Schools, instructs 787 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 67% bigger than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Lowrance Elementary/Middle is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Lowrance Elementary/Middle logs that nearly all students (81%) are Black. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Shelby County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Lowrance Elementary/Middle is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Southwind High, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 910 students in 2018 compared to 787 in 2025.
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