Oak Forest Elementary

Oak Forest Elementary is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Memphis, Tennessee, run under Memphis-Shelby County Schools, teacheing 432 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Oak Forest Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Shelby County put the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Oak Forest Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Germantown Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Oak Forest Elementary's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 432).

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