North Elementary

North Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Altamont, Tennessee, run under Grundy County, enrolls 385 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Within Grundy County, which oversees 5 schools and 1,711 students, North Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, North Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Grundy County indicate median household earnings sit near $47,593, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Grundy County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,711 students), of which North Elementary is one.

Grundy County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. North Elementary's enrollment has climbed 29% since 2018, when it stood at 298 (now 385).

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.