Peabody Elementary

Peabody Elementary is a small elementary school in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school enrolls 310 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 470.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Peabody Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Peabody Elementary shows that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, Shelby County reports that median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Peabody Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Maxine Smith STEAM Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Peabody Elementary.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 351 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 18% to 5%.

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