New Union Elementary

New Union Elementary is an elementary campus of compact scale in Manchester, Tennessee, run under Coffee County, hosting 297 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Coffee County runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,313 students. New Union Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, New Union Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Coffee County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,505 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Coffee County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,190 students), New Union Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Coffee County Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 81% to 75%.

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