Lucie E. Campbell Elementary

Lucie E. Campbell Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school caters to 600 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 470.

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

On the student-mix side, Lucie E. Campbell Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In the broader community, Shelby County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Lucie E. Campbell Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Trezevant High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 575 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025.

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