Norwood Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Knoxville, Tennessee, Norwood Elementary serves 471 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Knox County.

Within Knox County, which oversees 93 schools and 60,185 students, Norwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Norwood Elementary lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 23% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 6% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Knox County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,222, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Knox County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), Norwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Northwest Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Norwood Elementary.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 42% across the same window.

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