Mt Olive Elementary

Mt Olive Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in Knoxville, Tennessee, operated by Knox County, with 215 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Mt Olive Elementary sits 54% smaller than that benchmark.

Knox County runs 93 schools in total, collectively educating 60,185 students. Mt Olive Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mt Olive Elementary shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Knox County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,222 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Knox County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), Mt Olive Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mooreland Heights Elementary, roughly 2.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mt Olive Elementary has ticked down 19%, going from 267 students in 2018 to 215 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Mt Olive Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.